Anderson v. Sands
Anderson v. Sands
Opinion of the Court
delivered the opinion of the Court:
The motion in this case by the petitioner, Henrietta Sands Anderson, is to limit the transcript of record. We do not recognize this as a question which we are necessarily called upon to decide. The rules of the court regulate the form and contents of the transcript of record on appeal. If parties designate parts of a record which are unnecessary to the determination of the case,—a fact that can hardly be passed upon except upon a hearing of the case itself,—the costs unnecessarily incurred will be adjudged against the party bringing up the unnecessary record.
We may call attention to the paragraph (f) of section 1 of rule 5, in regard to incorporating the opinion of the trial court in the transcript. The opinion of the court is not a part of the record of a case, and is only made so by the provisions of the rule which requires that where a “written opinion of the court
The motion to limit the transcript is denied.
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