Brockenbrough v. Dresser

We are obliged to affirm this decree without reference to the merits, upon the first point made by the appellee. The certified copies of the attachments, judgments and executions which we find set out in the record, are not properly there. They are not exhibits, filed with the bill, or any of the depositions, and there is' in the record no certificate of evidence by the court nor any statement of the facts proven in the decree. The clerk certifies that the record contains a “correct copy of all the papers on file, all of the orders of court and records used in evidence,” but his certificate…