Case ID: pr_21/html/0257-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "Me. Justice del Toko", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Rossy, Plaintiff and Respondent, v. Fernández, Defendant and Appellant.
    Appeal from the District Court of San Juan, ’ Section 1, in an Action to Becover Attorney’s Pees.
    Motion of Bespondent for Dismissal pf the Appeal. ‘'
    No. -. —
    Decided July 30, 1914.
    Appeal — Statement op Case. — When, as in the ease at bar, it is shown that the trial court granted an extension of time for presenting1 a draft of the statement of the case to the said court and the approval- of said statement is pending, the appeal will not be dismissed on the ground that the transcript of the record was not filed in the Supreme Court within the period of days, counting from the date of taking the appeal, for the said time begins to run in such a case from the date of the approval of the statement of the ease. • . 11
    The facts are stated in the opinion.
    The respondent appeared pro, se.
    
    
      Mr. Luis 8amalea Iglesias for the appellant.
   Me. Justice del Toko

delivered the opiniori’oji'the court.' '

In. the present caes the respondent moves for dismissal of the appeal because the transcript of the record was not filed in the office of the secretary of this court within the time prescribed by law.

From the certificates and affidavits of both parties it appears that in the action brought by Manuel F. Rossy against Belén Fernández for the recovery of professional fees judgment was rendered against the defendant on May 23, 1914; that on June 22,1914, the defendant appealed from that judgment to this court; that up to 9.30 a. m. of July 3, 1914, no bill of exceptions or statement of the case had been filed in the lower court for the purposes of the appeal; that one minute thereafter on the same day the defendant filed in the office of the secretary of the trial court a petition for an order granting an extension of time in which to file a statement of the case and that up to the present time, or more than one month from the date the appeal was taken, the transcript of the record has not been filed in this court.

Except when the trial court grants an extension, ten days -■are allowed for presenting the bill of exceptions or statement •of the case thereim Whether right or wrong, the fact is that the district court granted an extension of this time; that the respondent has taken no action in the district court, and that the statement of the case is at present pending approval in the said court; and when there is a statement of the case, the time allowed for filing the record in this court begins to run from the date of the approval of the statement of the case.

Under such circumstances and in accordance with the jurisprudence laid down in the case of Ciuro v. Ciuro, 19 P. R. R., 1136, we must conclude that the motion for dismissal of the appeal is premature, and therefore should be overruled.

Motion overruled.

Chief Justice Hernández and Justices Wolf, Aldrey, and Hutchison concurred.