Badger v. Stephens

—Section 2253 of the Revised Statutes of 1889 provides that, where a party appeals by filing in lieu of an entire transcript of the record of the cause in the trial court only a clerk’s certificate, showing the record entry of the judgment and order granting the appeal, he shall thereafter, within a time specified, file in the appellate court a printed abstract of the record. The section also provides that, if the respondent is dissatisfied with the abstract thus filed, he may file either an entire abstract, or such additional abstract as he may deem necessary. If the opposite party (the…