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35 S.D. 151

Smith v. Johnson

South Dakota Supreme Court

Decided February 20, 1915

South Dakota Supreme Court · decided 1915-02-20

<p>Appeals — Objectionable Brief — Redundant and Irrelevant Matter— Affirmance.</p> <p>Appellant’s counsel without condensation or effort to state tbe substance of matters considered material ion appeal, inserted, in tbe statement in bis brief, portions of testimony copied verbatim from stenographer’s transcript, with objections to evidence and rulings thereon not assigned as error nor complained of by him is .his brief, and preliminary questions serving no purpose except to encumber the record and increase the Court’s labor. Held, that the judgment will be affirmed. Following Donahue v. Adebar, 34 S. D. 471, 149 N. W. 175.</p>

Cited by 1 later decisions — most recently July 1924

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Affirmed · Decided 1915-02-20

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PER CURIAM.

¶1In the preparation of their brief herein, appellant’®' counsel were guilty of the same failures to comply with *152the rules andl decisions of this court as were noted by this court in the opinion in Donahoe v. Adebar, 149 N. W. 175. Everything .said in such opinion in relation to the appellant’s brief would apply to the brief before us.

¶2The judgment appealed from is affirmed.

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