President of the Grand Gulf Rail Road & Banking Co. v. Douglass

This case comes up in a very imperfect and incomplete state. The record contains no statement of facts, and the certificate of the clerk that the transcript contains all the evidence upon which the judgment appealed from ivas rendered, is so insufficient, that this alone would perhaps entitle the appellee to a dismissal of the appeal, if he had chosen to move for it.

But the defendant, who is the appellee, filed his answer to the merits, and prayed that the judgment might be amended, and given for a less amount. This would, perhaps, preclude him from moving for a dismissal of the appeal.

On the…