Case ID: la_122/html/0977-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "PROYOSTY, J.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

(48 South. 426.)
    No. 17,264.
    KEY v. McCALL et al.
    (Feb. 1, 1909.)
    Appeal and Erroe (§ 797*) — Dismissal oe Appeal — Motion—Time.
    The rule that a motion to dismiss an appeal comes too late if filed more than three days after the filing of the transcript, or if filed after appellee has caused the appeal to be set for trial, does not apply where appellant’s acquiescence in the decree on which the motion to dismiss the appeal is based does not take place until long after the expiration of the three days, and after the assignment of the cause for trial.
    (Ed. Note. — For other cases, see Appeal and Error, Cent. Dig. §§ 3149-3154; Dec. Dig. § 797.*]
    Appeal from Fourth Judicial District Court, Parish of Union; Robert Brooks Dawkins, Judge.
    Action between W. L. Key and R. F. McCall and others. From a judgment for the former, the latter appeals. On motion to dismiss.
    Granted.
    Crow & Crow, for appellants. Frederick Fauntleroy Preaus and Clifton Mathews, for appellee.
   On Motion to Dismiss.

PROYOSTY, J.

The judgment appealed from decrees a partition, and orders a sale to be made to effect the partition, and orders $850 to be paid to defendant out of tbe proceeds of the sale. Plaintiff and appellee has moved to dismiss the appeal on the ground that defendant has acquiesced in the judgment. Attached to the motion are duly certified documents showing that the judgment has been executed, the sale made, and the $350 paid to defendant and appellant. The latter cannot, and does not, gainsay his acquiescence in the judgment; but contends that. the motion to dismiss comes too late, it having been filed after the case had been fixed for trial, and more than three days after the filing of the transcript in this court. The transcript was lodged in this court on August 12, 1908; and the case was then asr signed for January 23, 1909. The motion to dismiss was filed January 12, 1909.

Ordinarily a motion to dismiss comes too late if filed more than three days after the filing of the transcript, or if filed after the appellee himself has caused the appeal to be fixed for trial. Saxon v. Southwestern Brick Company, 113 La. 637, 37 South. 540. But, necessarily, this can be the case only where the grounds of dismissal existed within the three days or at the time of the assignment for trial. In the present instance they did not. The acquiescence upon which the motion to dismiss is based did not take place until October 12, 1908, long after the expiration of the three days and after the assignment for trial.

Appeal dismissed.