RENDER v. DODSON

RENDER v. DODSON
1936 OK 851
66 P.2d 14
179 Okla. 352
Case Number: 27134
Decided: 12/22/1936
Supreme Court of Oklahoma

RENDER
v.
DODSON

Syllabus

¶0 APPEAL AND ERROR - Appeal by Transcript - Requisite Certificate of Court Clerk as to Completeness of Record.
Where a transcript on appeal fails to show affirmatively that it contains a true, full, and complete copy of all of the proceedings which are properly a part of the record, this court will not review the alleged errors presented by such transcript.

Appeal from District Court, Oklahoma County; Lucius Babcock, Judge.

Petition to vacate a judgment by J.T. Render and another against W.R. Dodson. From a judgment of the court sustaining a demurrer to such petition, plaintiffs appeal. Dismissed.

S.P. Freeling and Jno. B. Harrison, for plaintiffs in error.
A.E. Pearson, for defendant in error.

PER CURIAM.

¶1 A motion to dismiss has been filed in this cause for the reason that the certificate of the court clerk does not purport to present a transcript of the record.

¶2 We are of the opinion that the case must be dismissed under the rule announced many times by this court. See Wade v. Mitchell, 14 Okla. 168, 79 P. 95; Champion Oil Co. v. Burke, 90 Okla. 33, 215 P. 756. It is true the clerk certified that it is a full, true, correct, and complete copy of certain instruments, and sets out ten instruments.

¶3 The court cannot presume, or judicially know, that this is all of record unless the clerk's certificate is attached to the transcript stating that it is all of the record. The very purpose of the certificate is to satisfy this court that there are no other pleadings of record than those included in the transcript.

¶4 The appeal is therefore dismissed.