Case ID: tex-civ-app_32/html/0476-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "FISHER, Chief Justice.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Gulf, Colorado & Santa Fe Railway Company v. Charles Hall.
    Decided May 20, 1903.
    Briefs—Failure to File—Dismissal.
    Failure by appellant to file briefs in time to give appellee twenty days before submission to prepare his briefs, will be cause for dismissal.
    Appeal from the District Court of McLennan. Tried below before Hon. M. Surratt.
    
      J. W. Terry and Ballinger Mills, for appellant.
    
      T. A. Blair, for appellee.
   FISHER, Chief Justice.

—The transcript in this case was delivered to appellant’s attorneys on the 18th day of February, 1903, and was filed in this court on the 9th day of March, 1903. On the 22d day of April, 1903, this case, with others, was set down for submission for the 6th day of May, 1903. On the 30th of April, 1903, briefs of appellant were filed in this court. There is a certificate and affidavit of the clerk of the District Court of McLennan County, made on the 1st day of May, 1903, that no briefs in this case have been filed by appellant in the trial court. There are no briefs on file, for appellee.

The appellee has made a motion in this court that the appeal be dismissed, on the ground that the appellant has not complied with the law requiring briefs to be filed in the trial court and giving notice thereof to the appellee. The facts as stated bring this case within the rule announced by this court in the case of Harris v. Bryson & Hartgrove, 73 S. W. Rep., 548, decided by this court, and in which a writ of error has been recently refused by the Supreme Court.

For the reasons stated, the appeal is dismissed.

Dismissed.