NORTHERN MILL AND LUMBER COMPANY INC. v. Maynard

McKUSICK, Chief Justice.

Plaintiff brought suit against defendant in the District Court for $1,190.56, and trial was held on September 11,1978, without an electronic recording of the proceeding being made. The District Court judge rendered judgment for plaintiff and, within his discretion in the absence of such a recording, D.C.Civ.R. 52(a), denied defendant’s motion for findings of fact and conclusions of law. Defendant thereupon appealed to the Superior Court where he sought to include the trial judge’s handwritten notes of the trial in the record on appeal. The Superior Court, after ruling…