Case ID: la_144/html/0127-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "SOMMERVILLE, J.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

(80 South. 223)
    No. 21652.
    CONTI et al. v. SOUTHERN RY. & NAV. CO. et al.
    (Dec. 2, 1918.)
    
      (Syllabus by the Court.)
    
    Appeal and Error <&wkey;805 — Abandonment oe Appeal — Dismissal.
    Where an appellant fails to prosecute his appeal, does not file an assignment of errors, or file a brief, or appear when his case is called for trial, and his attorneys inform the court that they are no longer in the case, the appeal will be considered abandoned.
    Appeal from Tenth Judicial District Court, Parish of Concordia; N. M. Calhoun, Judge.
    Action by Kate Conti and others against the Southern Railway & Navigation Company and another. Judgment for plaintiffs, and defendants appeal.
    Appeal dismissed.
    Dale & Young, of Vidalia, for appellants.
    Engle & Laub, of Natchez, Miss., for appellees.
   SOMMERVILLE, J.

The Southern Railway & Navigation Company and the Concordia Land Company, defendants, are appellants from an adverse judgment rendered in 1915. The transcript of appeal was filed in this court October 28, 1915, since which time appellants have ceased to prosecute their appeal.

When the case was called for trial, plaintiffs submitted the case on briefs filed on their behalf. Defendants were absent and unrepresented. There is no assignment of errors in the record, and the court is not advised by defendants of the nature and extent of their complaints against the judgment appealed from by them. No brief has been filed on their behalf, and counsel for defendants have notified the court, by letter, that they had communicated with their former clients, the defendants, and that they (count sel) are no longer attorneys in the case.

Under the circumstances, the appeals appear to have been abandoned.

The appeal is dismissed at the cost of appellants.