Bethell v. Rogers
Bethell v. Rogers
Opinion of the Court
Motion to dismiss the appeal.
Judgment was rendered in this case in favor of thplaintiff, June 24, 1890, and an order was afterwards made denying defendant’s motion for a new trial. From this order the defendant appealed on the 29th of April, 1892. May 25,1893, the respondent gave notice to the appellant of this motion to dismiss the appeal, upon the ground that .the appellant had failed to file the printed transcript of the record within the time prescribed by rule II of this court. At the time of giving the notice the transcript on appeal had not been filed and was not filed until June, 1893.
Rule XI of this court provides that if a party shall present to the attorney of the adverse party a transcript on appeal in a civil cause, and request his certificate that the.same is correct, and said attorney upon such request shall for a period of five days neglect or refuse to join in such certificate, the costs of procuring a proper certificate from the clerk shall be taxed against him. This rule does not supersede the provision of rule IT which' requires the transcript to be filed within forty days after taking the appeal, nor does it extend the time for filing the transcript until the expiration of the period given to the adverse party to examine the same. At the time that the transcript was left with Wells to be forwarded to the respondent’s attorney nearly sixty days had elapsed after the appeal had been taken, and, if it could be assumed that his construction of rule XI
The appeal is dismissed.
Paterson, J., and Garoutte, J., concurred.
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- T. C. BETHELL v. C. W. ROGERS
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- Appeal—Time fob Filing Transcript—Certificate of Counsel—Construction of Rules.—Rule XI of the supreme court providing that if a party shall present to the attorney of the adverse party a transcript upon appeal in a civil cause, and request his certificate that the same is correct, and said attorney, upon such request, shall, for a period of five days, neglect or refuse to join in such certificate, the costs of procuring a proper certificate shall be taxed against him, does not supersede the provision of rule II, which requires the transcript to be filed within forty days after taking the appeal, nor does it extend the time for filing the transcript until the expiration of the period given to the adverse party to examine the same. Id.—Neglect of Appellant—Dismissal of Appeal,—Where an appellant allowed nearly sixty days to elapse after the taking of the appeal before, he caused the transcript upon appeal to be sent to the attorney for respondent for his certificate to its correctness, and waited until nearly a year thereafter before he filed it, a motion to dismiss the appeal made before the filing of the transcript will be granted.