Reid v. Reid

The transcript contains an assignment of eight specifications of error. The record, however, omits all of the pleadings in the cause, although they were quite numerous, and included complaint, amended complaint, answers and amended answers, cross-complaint, and answers and amended answers thereto, and replies.

With this omission, and the failure of the record otherwise to disclose the same, we are unable to determine who were parties to the suit, and to what extent their interests were affected by allegation or admission. The essential basis of a cause, the pleadings, not being before us, we…