46 Ind. App. 403 | Ind. Ct. App. | 1910
The first entry in the transcript after the placita proceeds as follows: “Be it remembered that on January 16, 1906, * * * the following proceedings were had in said cause, to wit: Come the plaintiffs by their attorneys and file their complaint, on account and contract, in these words.” Then follows a complaint in three paragraphs. The record then shows the issuance of summons, appearances of attorneys, filing of cost bond, filing of joint and several demurrers, ruling of the court thereon, filing by plaintiffs of an additional third paragraph of complaint, which is not copied into the record, and the filing of a motion of defendants to require plaintiffs to make said third paragraph more specific. »Then follows this entry: “And afterwards, to wit, on March 1, 1906, the same being the twenty-second judicial day of the February term, 1906, of said court, the following further proceedings were had in said court in said cause, to wit: Come the plaintiffs by
This case is distinguished from the case of Indianapolis Union R. Co. v. Houlihan (1901), 157 Ind. 494, 54 L. R. A. 787, in this: In the Houlihan case the clerk copied into the transcript a complaint, as the amended complaint, that was identical with the original complaint that had previously been copied into the transcript, but designated the latter complaint as the amended complaint, and certified that the transcript contained a copy of the amended complaint. In this case, however, the clerk copied into the transcript the original domplaint, and did not pretend to copy the amended complaint, and did not certify that the transcript contained such copy. The presumption that the clerk has done his whole duty cannot be indulged in, in the face of the plain words of the transcript. "We are reluc
Judgment affirmed.