Dahlberg v. Ogle, 777S524

Citation364 N.E.2d 1174,266 Ind. 524
Decision Date20 July 1977
Docket NumberNo. 777S524,777S524
PartiesDonna DAHLBERG, as Administratrix of the Estate of Leslie R. Dahlberg, Jr., Deceased, Appellant, v. Dr. Robert OGLE and Dr. Francisco D. Deogracias, Appellees.
CourtSupreme Court of Indiana

Morris L. Klapper, Indianapolis, for appellant.

Richard J. Darko, Jon D. Krahulik, Indianapolis, for appellee Ogle.

Geoffrey Segar, G. Daniel Kelley, Jr., Indianapolis, for appellee Deogracias.

PER CURIAM.

This case arose in the trial court as an action against two physicians whose alleged negligence resulted ultimately in the death of plaintiff's decedent. The case concluded with a judgment for both defendants and plaintiff appealed. The Second District Court of Appeals dismissed upon motions of the appellee physicians because the transcript of the evidence was not shown by the record of the proceedings to have been properly filed with the clerk of the trial court and thereby made part of the record as required by Ind.R.Ap.P. 7.2(A)(4), and because of the failure of appellant's brief to conform to Ind.R.Ap.P. 8.3(A)(7) dealing with the requirement that instructions and objections thereto and specific statements of errors from the motion to correct errors be set out.

The record of proceedings before us contains a transcript of the evidence properly authenticated by the certificate of the court reporter and the judge, and the entire record of proceedings concludes with the final certificate of the clerk. The transcript of the evidence bears no file stamp; the final clerk's certificate does not state that the transcript of evidence was filed; and there is no order book entry which proclaims that the transcript was filed with the clerk. Judge Lienberger's certificate does contain the following statement:

"And this transcript is now, here, on this, the 3rd day of September, 1975, settled, approved, signed and ordered to be and constitute a part of the record of said cause, and the Clerk of said court is hereby ordered to file the same as a part of the record in said above entitled cause, and the same is now filed with said Clerk and made a part of the record herein." (Emphasis added.)

The Court of Appeals dismissed the case in part because it could find no adequate evidence of filing, and in so determining, it rejected appellant's response to the motion to dismiss including her contention that the judge's certificate proved that act. The Court of Appeals has refused to accept the judge's certificate for this purpose, Boyd v. Ralph Rogers and Company, Inc. (1975), Ind.App., 338 N.E.2d 323; Findling v. Findling (1963), 134 Ind.App. 661, 186 N.E.2d 892; Smith v. Gerner (1949), 119 Ind.App. 247, 85 N.E.2d 516. We turn then to consider whether this result is desirable and should be continued.

In Walner v. Capron (1945), 224 Ind. 267, 66 N.E.2d 64, this Court accepted as sufficient a recital in the clerk's certificate at the end of the record to the effect that the...

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  • Lugar v. State ex rel. Lee
    • United States
    • Court of Appeals of Indiana
    • April 10, 1978
    ...so that the reader is able to readily identify the corresponding error assigned in the Motion to Correct Errors. In Dahlberg v. Ogle (1977), Ind., 364 N.E.2d 1174, under similar circumstances, our Supreme Court refused to dismiss an appeal or hold the issues waived. As in that case, the App......
  • Ernst v. Sparacino
    • United States
    • Court of Appeals of Indiana
    • September 28, 1978
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    • United States
    • Court of Appeals of Indiana
    • June 1, 1981
    ...Failure to comply waives consideration of any issue which can only be ascertained by reference to the record. Dahlberg v. Ogle, (1977) 266 Ind. 524, 364 N.E.2d 1174; Bailey v. State, (1934) 206 Ind. 547, 188 N.E. 575; Rosenblower v. Schuetz, (1894) 141 Ind. 44, 40 N.E. 256; Taylor v. Butt, ......
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    • United States
    • Court of Appeals of Indiana
    • June 15, 1978
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