Trans-Continental Finance Corp. v. Baxter

ORFINGER, Judge.

Petitioner requests that we issue a writ of certiorari addressed to the Circuit Court of Lake County which, while sitting as an appellate court, affirmed a judgment of the County Court except as to a portion thereof not questioned in these proceedings.

The Circuit Court’s affirmance was based on the fact that, although a transcript of the trial proceedings could have been made available on appeal, no such transcript was made a part of the appellate record. Thus the court concluded that:

[t]he law is quite clear that an appellate court cannot speculate on the ruling of the trial…