Southern Railway Co. v. Wafford

The only assignment of error is upon the overruling of a motion for a new trial. There is no brief of the 'evidence in the record. It is true that there is a lengthy document, signed by counsel and approved by the judge, and bearing the title “Brief of the evidence;” but if §5488 of the Civil Code means what it says, this document is not a brief of the evidence. It is spread out over 54 typewritten pages, when, at the outside, the substance of it could easily be condensed into 10 pages. Indeed, it requires no resort to transcendentalism for us to know that it is substantially the full report…