The writ of error in this cause having been made returnable to the January term, 1896, of this court, and the cause being now reached in its regular order on the docket for final adjudication, and the plaintiff in error and his attorney having failed to file any abstracts of the record as provided for by rule 20 of this court, adopted September 16th, 1895, the said writ of error is hereby dismissed at the cost of the plaintiff in error.