Verdier

The respondent moves to- dismiss the appeal on the ground that the appellant has not complied with that portion of section 953c of the Code of Civil Procedure to the effect that, in filing briefs on an appeal the parties must “print in their briefs, or in a supplement appended thereto, such portions of the record as they desire to call to the attention of the court.” The reproductions of parts of the record made in appellant’s brief are very meager; perhaps we might even assert from the inspection we have made of the brief for the purposes of the present motion that they are insufficient to present the merits of the ease for our consideration when we come to dispose of the appeal. That, however, is far from saying that the appeal should be dismissed. The printing of parts of the record in the briefs, under section 953c, involves a considerable expense, and it may be that, in individual cases, counsel have entered and will enter into understandings designed to obviate the necessity of printing. This might 'be done, for instance, through a statement of a case in one brief, with an express assent to its correctness in the opposing brief. For us to dismiss appeals for an apparent…