Clawans v. White

RUTLEDGE, Associate Justice.

The appeal is from a judgment for the defendant in an action for slander and assault and battery. The trial was before a jury, and appellant has made many assignments of error. Appellee has filed a motion to dismiss the appeal because the record has not been perfected properly. Inasmuch as the question concerning the state of the record also involves the only assignments which have semblance of substance, it will be considered first.

Appellant was the first of approximately thirty witnesses. There was- no reporter until, during her cross-examination, she charged the…