Wesby v. Bowers

A preliminary question arises in this ease as to what is properly before us on this appeal. The appeal purports to be taken under the second alternative of section 2253 of the Revised *420Statutes of 1889 by filing, in lieu of a transcript, a certified copy of the decree appealed from and order of appeal, and a printed abstract of the record. The. clerk’s certificate includes, besides the two entries, provided for by the section, a large number of other entries not provided for, but which under the law should be contained in the printed abstract of appellant. It is only by piecing together the…