Case ID: sw_269/html/1116-03.html
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Author: {"author": "WALTHALL, J.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Paul A. ARNOLD, Appellant, v. M. J. SEGAL et al., Appellees.
    (No. 1700.)
    (Court of Civil Appeals of Texas. El Paso.
    March 19, 1925.)
    Appeal from District Court, Stephens County; C. O. Hamlin, Judge.
    James G. Harrell and Jackson & Shields, all of Breckenridge, for appellant.
    Leaverton & Hardy and V. L. Shurtleff, all of Breckenridge, for appellees.
   WALTHALL, J.

In this case appellant sued appellees, a copartnership composed of M. J. Segal, Nate Rosenbaum, and Sam Segal, for damages on account of certain libelous matter alleged to have been printed and published by .appellees of and concerning him. Appellees answered in the suit. The. case was tried, and a verdict returned and judgment entered in 1923, in appellees’ favor. Appellant duly filed a motion for a new .trial, which was overruled, and appellant excepted, and gave notice of and perfected his appeal. Briefs have not been filed in this court by any of the parties. The appeal is dismissed, because of the appellant’s failuré to brief the ease. Rule 38, 230 S. W. viii; Smith v. Spearman (Tex. Civ. App.) 249 S. W. 252. Dismissed.