Rogers v. Crawford.

• Decision Date: 23 December 1916
• Docket Number: No. 1895.,1895.
• Parties: ROGERSv.CRAWFORD.
• Court: New Mexico Supreme Court

22 N.M. 365

161 P. 1184

ROGERS

v.CRAWFORD.

No. 1895.

Supreme Court of New Mexico.

Dec. 23, 1916.

Syllabus by the Court.

Where transcript of proceedings in case tried to court without a jury is certified to this court only by certificate of stenographer, the same imports no verity and will be stricken from files upon motion therefor.

Section 4490, Code 1915, does not authorize an extension of time within which to file a transcript of record in this court, where a transcript has already been filed and where the application is made for the purpose of correcting errors or omissions due to oversight of counsel.

Error to District Court, Chaves County; G. A. Richardson, Judge.

Action by A. J. Crawford against W. E. Rogers. There was a judgment for plaintiff, and defendant brings error. Transcript of proceedings stricken.

Section 4490, Code 1915, does not authorize an extension of time within which to file a transcript of record in this court, where a transcript has already been filed and where the application is made for the purpose of correcting errors or omissions due to oversight of counsel.

W. E. Rogers, of Roswell, for plaintiff in error.

Gibbany & Epstein, of Roswell, for defendant in error.

PARKER, J.

This is a suit brought by defendant in error, A. J. Crawford, against W. E. Rogers, plaintiff in error, on three several promissory notes, in which plaintiff in error appears to be an indorser in blank.

[1] The case is not before us on the merits, but upon the motion of defendant in error to strike from the files the transcript of the evidence, on the grounds that the case was tried to the court without a jury and that the transcribed notes of the stenographer have not been certified to this court in accordance with section 4493, Code 1915. That section is as follows:

“In all actions tried without a jury the testimony taken before a court or that taken by a referee, the transcribed notes of the stenographer in such cases, properly certified by the court or referee, and all motions, orders or decisions made or entered in the progress of the trial of any such action shall become and be a part of the record for the purpose of having the cause reviewed by the supreme court upon appeal or writ of error, without any bill of exceptions. And it shall not be necessary to have any bill of exceptions settled, signed or sealed, in order to make any of such matters a part of the record in cases so tried. It shall not be necessary to make a motion for a new trial in any case tried by the court without a jury.”

It will be seen that under that section matters not record proper are certified to this court by the trial court in cases tried to it without a jury; hence such procedure, when the party proceeds under that section, displaces the precedure by way of bill of exceptions for which provision is elsewhere made.

An examination of the transcript of record on this writ of error discloses a certificate of the court stenographer, who recorded the proceedings at the trial, to the effect that the transcript of proceedings is full, true, and correct; but there is attached no certificate whatever of the trial court. Under the authority of section 4493, Code 1915, quoted supra, it has been held that the certificate of the court stenographer in itself is insufficient to make the transcript of the proceedings on the trial an element in the review of the case, in that the said...