Brunswick Book Co. v. Charles H. Torsch Co.

1. Whenever it appears that the clerk of a trial court has failed to transmit to this court within the time prescribed by law a bill of exceptions and transcript, and that an attorney for the plaintiff in error “has been the cause of the delay, . . by consent, direction, or procurement of any kind,” the writ of error will be dismissed. Civil Code, §§ 5571, 5572.

2. An attorney at law who, by promising a clerk to make up a record for transmission to the Supreme Court, induces him to postpone giving his personal attention to the matter, and who fails to comply with the promise thus made, with…