Case ID: app-dc_26/html/0266-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "Mr. Chief Justice Shepard", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

DOWLING v. BUCKEY.
    Appellate Practice; Citation; Waiver.
    I. Where the record on appeal shows that the citation required by section 5, rule 10, of this court, although issued in due time in the court below, was returned not served because of failure to pay the fee required therefor, the appeal will be dismissed. (Following Chester v. Morgan, 11 App. D. C. 435.)
    2. The failure to serve a citation on the appellee after the entry of an appeal to this court is waived by the appellee where he expressly consents to the appellant’s designation of the parts of the record to be included in the transcript, and the transcript, prepared in accordance therewith, is obtained and filed in this court.
    No. 1622.
    Submitted November 21, 1905.
    Decided November 24, 1905.
    Hearing on a motion by the appellee to dismiss an appeal for failure to issue or serve a citation.
    
      Denied.
    
    The facts are sufficiently stated in the opinion.
    
      Mr. Joseph D. Wright and Mr. William B. Andrews for the motion.
    
      Mr. A. A. Lipscomb and Mr. W. M. Ellison opposed.
   Mr. Chief Justice Shepard

delivered the opinion of the Court:

The áppellee, Thomas W. Buckey, has moved to dismiss this appeal because no citation was issued and served as required by section 5, rule 10, of this court.

It appears that citation was issued in due time after entry of the appeal in the court below, but had been returned unserved because of failure to pay the fee required therefor. If this were all that is shown by the record the appeal would have to be dismissed. Chester v. Morgan, 11 App. D. C. 435, 439.

The appellee, was, however, informed of the prosecution of the appeal by notice given, under the rules, of appellant’s designation of the parts of the record to be included in the transcript. To this designation he expressly consented, and the transcript prepared in accordance therewith was then obtained and filed with the clerk of this court. By this action the failure to serve tbe citation was waived, and the motion will, therefore, be denied. Denied.