154 Ind. 47 | Ind. | 1900
"What purports to be a transcript of the record is not authenticated by the seal of the lower court. It is the imperative requirement of the statute that the seal of the court below must be affixed to the certificate, as well as
As was said in Watson v. Finch, supra: “All appeals in this court are tried by the record. It is the only legitimate evidence to establish the rulings of the trial court upon which alleged errors are based. In the absence of the transcript being authenticated, as required by statute, it cannot be considered or treated as a copy of the original record, and therefore cannot be received or used as evidence to sustain appellant’s complaint, and the appeal must fail.”
A court speaks by its record, and unless the same is authenticated by the certificate of the clerk and seal of the court, there is no evidence that it is the record of the court. It is the duty- of an appellant in an appeal to this court to carefully examine the transcript, and see that the same has been correctly and properly prepared and certified, and' attested by the seal of the court, before the same is filed. §§661, 7932 Burns 1894, §§649, 5846 R. S. 1881 and ITorner 1897; Miller v. Evansville, etc., R. Co., 143 Ind. 570, 573; Drake v. State, 145 Ind. 210, 219; Watson v. Finch, supra; Elliott’s App. Proc. §208; Ewbank’s Manual §117; 2 Ency. Pl. & Pr. 292-293.
The appeal is therefore dismissed.