Lapique

[1] We are always anxious to get an appreciative understanding of appellants’ troubles, whether real or imaginary; but it must be confessed that in this case we have studied the record on appeal&emdash;if such it may be termed&emdash;in vain to find any connected legal history of the transactions involved. The appeal is taken on the alternative plan, and the purported transcript contains motions, decrees, orders, and affidavits in indiscriminate order, some of them entitled in the principal case, some in other presumably related matters, and some not entitled in any action or proceeding. The notice of appeal is directed to a “minute order made and entered after final judgment, denying plaintiff’s motion by reason of collusion and want of jurisdiction on the eighteenth day of January, 1917.” The only order we find in the record meeting any of the characteristics of the notice of appeal-&emdash;and that only by correspondence of the dates&emdash;is an order of January 18, 1917, wherein it is “ordered that the motion be set aside stipulation and judgment be and the same is hereby denied.” This order apparently relates to proceedings on a notice of motion to vacate and set aside a…