Arnold v. Arnold, 332 MICH 542 (1952): Record

The Arnold v. Arnold record is a formal legal document compiled for the Michigan Supreme Court regarding a 1952 domestic relations case. These appellate records were produced to provide the justices with the verbatim transcript of lower court testimony, pleadings, and exhibits necessary to adjudicate appeals. In this specific litigation, the document captures the procedural history of a marriage dissolution, serving as a primary source for understanding the application of Michigan family law during the mid-twentieth century.

The design of such volumes was dictated by the strict procedural rules of the Michigan Supreme Court, which required a standardized layout to ensure accessibility for the judiciary. While not the work of a single designer in the artistic sense, these records were curated by the attorneys of record—in this case, counsel for the parties—to distill the relevant trial court proceedings into a printed format. As part of the Westlaw collection, these records remain historically significant as institutional documents that offer researchers a glimpse into the legal mechanisms of the post-war era.