Pioche Mines Consolidated, Inc., Ely Valley Mines, Inc., and John Janney v. Helen Dolman, John Janney v. Helen Dolman

Before us are 10 appeals, 9 in No. 17,-709 and 1 in No. 18,192, all of which have been consolidated here. To a considerable extent, they are an imposition on this Court. Appellants’ opening brief is 338 printed pages long, not counting 23 pages of appendix. It bears the characteristic stigmata of a forensic effort produced under the influence of strong emotion and written in the vocative. It is an unbridled attack on appellees, their counsel, and the trial judge. It starts with an assertion, repeated ad nauseam, that the judge accepted and acted upon allegations that he knew to be false, and goes on from there, piling up charges on nearly every page. Material under the heading: “Questions presented” begins on page 36 and continues to page 87. There are set forth some 298 “questions” supposedly raised by the appeals. Nearly' all of them are loaded with assertions, innuendoes and assumptions. We cite two examples, chosen at random, that are fairly typical:

How such “questions” can help us to decide this case is beyond our comprehension.

The “specifications of error on which appellants rely” begin on page 87, and continue to page 151. There are 29 numbered “specifications,” but…