Alvarez v. Anzalota Monet
Alvarez v. Anzalota Monet
Opinion of the Court
delivered the opinion of the court.
The judgment appealed from was rendered on December 19, 1929. On the 18th of the following January the appeal was taken, and on the 23rd the conrt ordered the stenographer to prepare the transcript of the evidence for the purposes of the appeal. On the 10th of the following February the stenographer applied to the conrt for an extension of thirty days and for an order directing the appellant to deposit within fifteen days in the office of the clerk the sum of $60, as the probable amount of the stenographer’s fees. The court granted the application, and the order to make the deposit was notified to the appellant on February 13. On March 3 the appellee filed in this court the present motion, together with a memorandum in support, thereof and some excerpts from the record.
The appellant opposed that motion and, at the hearing thereof on the 17th instant, he filed a certificate from which it appears that he applied for and obtained from the district court a new extension of 30 days for the stenographer to prepare the transcript and promised to deposit during that time the stenographer’s fees. That extension has not expired as yet.
The mere recital of the above facts and a consideration of Rules 58 and 59 of this court suffice for the conclusion that the dismissal does not lie on the first of the two grounds above stated. There is an extension still in force and the period of 90 days fixed by Rule 59 had not fully elapsed at the time of the filing of the motion, or even now. As the first extension granted to the stenographer had not expired, the district court had jurisdiction and power to grant a second extension for making the deposit of the fees. The case of Ferrocarriles del Este v. Ríos, 39 P.R.R. 77 is not applicable. A different situation is involved here.
Besides, the legal question involved in this appeal is new and interesting, as appears from a perusal of the documents sent up; and justice and the precedents seem both to require that, before a final decision is reached with reference to such a question, the same should be accorded full consideration in this court in the light of all the facts and circumstances submitted to the lower court.
For the foregoing reasons the motion of the appellee must be denied.
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