Hernández v. Quiñones
Hernández v. Quiñones
Opinion of the Court
delivered the opinion of the court.
The hearing on the motion, to dismiss was set for November 2nd and both parties appeared. The appellant opposed the motion, alleging that he was not bound to file the transcript within the period, of thirty days from the date of filing the notice of the appeal because on July 28, 1925, the lower court granted him an extension of thirty days “to take up the said record” and he filed it within that extension of time.
When the record for an appeal is perfected in the lower court the law allows thirty days for filing the transcript in the Supreme Court. Section 299 of the Code of Civil Procedure, as amended by the Act of June 26, 1919, Acts of 1919, p. 674, and Bule 40 of the Supreme Court, 17 P.B.B. LXXIII.
When is the record perfected? When there is a statement of the case or bill of exceptions, from the time when the said documents are approved and made a part of the judgment roll. When there are no such documents, that is, when all that is to be included in the transcript forms a part of the judgment roll at the time when the appeal is taken, the starting point for computing the period is the date on which the notice of appeal was filed. This has been held repeatedly by the Supreme Court.
In the case under consideration it is evident that all of the necessary documents formed part of the judgment
Was said period extended? As we have stated, the appellant contends that the district court “granted him an extension of thirty days for taking up the record.” The extension granted to the appellant by the district court was on July 29, 1925, in the following terms:
“The court grants the plaintiff an extension of 30 clays for filing the statement of the ease for the .purpose of the appeal.”
The action of the trial court has not, therefore, the extent attributed to it by the appellant. The court granted thirty days for the preparation in that court of the statement of the case, but it did not grant any extension of time for bringing up the record to this court. If it had granted the extension, it would have been ineffectual for the reasoxr that only the Supreme Court has jurisdiction to grant such extensions.
Clearly, if this had been a case wherein a statement of the case could have been prepared, the period of thirty days for bringing up the transcript would have remained virtually suspended, inasmuch as it would not have begun to run until the statement had been filed. But we have already said that this is not a case in which a statement of' the case had to be prepared. The extension granted was fruitless.
Besides it would result, as the appellee contends, that the motion for extension of July 28th was made after the ten days fixed by the first paragraph of section 299 of the Code of Civil Procedure, as amended in 1919 (p. 674), had expired; therefore, it could not be considered, according also to the repeated jurisprudence of this court.
The appeal should be dismissed.
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