Case ID: nc_113/html/0276-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "Clark, J.:", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

W. A. COX, Administrator, v. NANCY A. JONES et al.
    
      Appeal — Defective Record — Laches in Perfecting Record.
    
    Where a case was remanded from this Court at Spring Term, 1892, to the end that appellant might have a lost record supplied by proper proceedings in the Court below, which has not been done, and the record is as defective as when the order of remand was made, though three or four terms of the Superior Court in that county have transpired and no excuse is rendered for the laches, the case will be dismissed on motion of appelleeunder Rulel5 of the Supreme* Court.
    
      .Messrs. Devereux & Batchelor, for plaintiff.
    
      Mr. H. R. Kornegay, for defendants.
   Clark, J.:

This was a motion made in September, 1888, to set aside a judgment rendered in a special proceeding in 1871. The appeal was docketed here at Fall Term, 1891. The record of the special proceeding not being sent up, a certio-rari was sent down, to which the Clerk returned, that after diligent search, only fragmentary parts thereof could be found, and these he sent up. Thereupon, at Spring Term 1892, the case was remanded (110 N. C., 309), to the end that the. appellant might take steps to have the lost record supplied by proper proceedings in the Court below. This he has not done, and the Court is unable to pass upon the case as presented in the voluminous, irregular and insufficient transcript. The record is as defective as when the order of remand was made, though since then there have been three or four terms of the Superior Court in that county. No excuse is rendered which atones for this laches. The cause having been here two terms since (Fall Term, 1892, and Spring Term, 1893), the motion of appellee to dismiss the appeal under Rule 15 is allowed. Brantly v. Jordan, 92 N. C., 291; Wiseman v. Commissioners, 104 N. C., 330.

Appeal Dismissed.