Case ID: sw_199/html/1179-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "WILLSON, C. J.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

LEWIS v. McDOWELL et al.
    (No. 1892.)
    (Court of Civil Appeals of Texas. Texarkana.
    Jan. 4, 1918.)
    Appeal and Error <&wkey;387(3) — Bond—Time poe Filing.
    To confer jurisdiction upon the appellate court the appeal bond must have been filed within 20 days after the expiration of the term at which judgment was rendered, under Vernon’s Sayles’ Ann. Civ. St. 1914, art. 2084, and where this was not done the appeal must be dismissed.
    Appeal from District Court, Cass County; H. F. O’Neal, Judge.
    B. W. Lewis appeals from a judgment against him and in favor of J. M. McDowell and others.
    Appeal dismissed.
    Turner & Smitha and T. N. Graham, all of Texarkana, for appellant. O’Neal & Allday, of Atlanta, for appellees.
   WILLSON, C. J.

To confer jurisdiction of the appeal upon this court the appeal bond must have been filed within 20 days after the expiration of the term at which the judgment was rendered. Article 2084, Vernon’s Statutes. Said term of the court ended April 13, 1917, and the bond was filed on the 25th day thereafterwards, to wit, on May 8, 1917. As this court, therefore, is without power to hear and determine the appeal, it is dismissed.