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6 Wis. 67

Best v. Young

Wisconsin Supreme Court

Decided July 1, 1858

Wisconsin Supreme Court · decided 1858-07-01

<p>Where the clerk on his return sent up all the papers filed in the case, none of them attached together, hut enclosed in an envelope, the appeal was dismissed.</p> <p>The rule of the court requires the clerk to return the notice of appeal and the judgment roll, or a Certified copy thereof, when directed by the Circuit Judge.</p> <p>The judgment roll consists of certain papers attached together, 'but loose papers filed in the cause, inclosed in an envelope, will not be taken for, or deemed a judgment roll.</p>

Decided 1858-07-01

¶1By the Cmvrt,

Whiton O J.

¶2The return in this case, not being in conformity to our rules, the appeal must he dismissed.

¶3Rule three of this court requires that the return shall consist of the notice of appeal and the judgment roll, unless the Circuit Court shall direct a certified copy of the judgment roll to be transmitted instead of the original, when the appeal is from a final judgment.

¶4Section 191 of the Code of Procedure, provides that unless the party, or his attorney, shall furnish a judgment roll, the clerk shall immediately after entering the judgment, attach together and file certain papers specified in the section, which shall constitute the judgment roll.

¶5In this case no papers are attached together, but all the papers which were filed by the parties in the progress of the suit are sent up, enclosed in an envelope.

¶6This is not a compliance with the rule, and we cannot consent to look through a mass of papers, not properly a part of the return, in order to judge of the merits of the appeal.

¶7Appeal dismissed,

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