Gudebrod v. Artemas Ward's Administrator

The petition and record in this case consists of nearly 4,000 printed pages, divided into eight large volumes, a great proportion of which is entirely irrelevant to the issues presented. The record contains page after page of colloquies between counsel, the rambling and argumentative statements of witnesses, the same exceptions repeated over and over, excerpts from other records, and numerous reports of accountants dealing with the same subject matter. The pertinent facts, sandwiched as they are between so much superfluous matter have been difficult and tedious to weed out. In this burdensome…