Twiford v. Harrison

The transcript of appeal certified to this Court contains no narrative statement of the evidence before the referee or the Superior Court. It contains neither exhibits, muniments of title, nor the court map which was evidently the hub of the trial. There is only a purported summary entitled “Statement of Case on Appeal” in which, on one mimeographed page, counsel profess to abridge the 234 pages of testimony before the referee. In addition to this statement and the record proper, the transcript includes the judge’s charge and five assignments of error which are either formal or are not…