City of Emporia v. Kowalski

Supreme Court of Kansas
City of Emporia v. Kowalski, 65 Kan. 772 (Kan. 1902)
70 P. 863; 1902 Kan. LEXIS 133
Greene

City of Emporia v. Kowalski

Opinion of the Court

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Greene, J.:

The defendant in error recovered judgment against the city of Emporia for personal injuries sustained while in its employ by the falling of one of its .electric-light poles upon him. The city prosecutes this proceeding.

The assignments of error are : (1) Refusing to set aside the special findings of the jury ; (2) overruling defendant’s demurrer to the evidence for the reason that plaintiff’s evidence conclusively proved that he knew of the danger and assumed the risk; (3) refusing to give certain instructions ; (4) giving certain instructions; and (5) admitting incompetent, irrelevant and immaterial testimony. It will be observed that to determine the alleged errors it will be necessary to examine all the proceedings had in the court below. This voluminous record is not indexed. Rule 9 provides:

“Counsel for the plaintiff in error shall number the pages of the record, and shall fully index the pages, *774showing the pleadings, testimony, instructions, verdict, findings, and all other material parts of the record, before the clerk shall receive or file it. . .

The indexing of the record is a comparatively easy matter for counsel who have tried the cause and prepared a case-made. The index relieves this court of a great amount of labor which can more profitably be expended in other lines of duty. If counsel wish this court to examine records to determine questions arising at the trial, such as are presented in this cause, they must comply with the rule and make an index.

For the reasons herein indicated this cause is dismissed.

All the Justices concurring.

Reference

Full Case Name
The City of Emporia v. Anton Kowalski
Status
Published
Syllabus
SYLLABUS BY THE COURT. 1. Practice, Supreme Court — Case-made. It is the duty of counsel for plaintiff in error, under rule 9 of this court, to number and index the pages of the record, showing the pleadings, testimony, instructions, verdict, findings, and 'all other material parts of the record, before the clerk shall receive or file it. 2. -Record must be Paged and Indexed. In a proceeding in error, where the alleged errors are numerous, a determination of which will require an examination of all the proceedings had in the court below, and the record is not paged and indexed, this court will not enter upon an examination thereof. For such neglect the cause will be dismissed.