Case Name: State of Missouri ex rel. John L. Lathrop, Appellant, v. John D. Dowling et al., Respondents
Court: Supreme Court of Missouri
Jurisdiction: Missouri
Decision Date: 1870-10
Citations: 47 Mo. 103
Docket Number: 
Parties: State of Missouri ex rel. John L. Lathrop, Appellant, v. John D. Dowling et al., Respondents.
Judges: 
Reporter: Missouri Reports
Volume: 47
Pages: 103–104

Head Matter:
State of Missouri ex rel. John L. Lathrop, Appellant, v. John D. Dowling et al., Respondents.
1. Practice, civil — District Courts — Assignment of errors — Statement of case — Failure to file. — The failure of appellant to file an assignment of errors and statement of the ease before the District Court (Gen. Stat. 1865, ch. 135, § 38) up to the time when the case is reached upon the docket, is proper ground for dismissing the appeal.
Appeal from Sixth District Court.
James Carr, and Green <$■ Wilson, for appellant.
Geo. II. Shields, for respondents.

Opinion:
Bliss, Judge,
delivered the opinion of the court.
This case was appealed from the Hannibal Court of Common Pleas and regularly docketed. When called up for hearing, the plaintiff's counsel did not appear, and it appeared that no assignment of errors and no statement of the case and points had been filed; and therefore, and for that cause, the District Court dismissed the appeal. From that action the plaintiff appeals to this court, and the only question is whether such dismissal was erroneous.
The chapter concerning District Courts (ch. 135, Glen. Stat.) expressly provides (§38) that "on appeals and writs of error, each party shall, on the day next preceding the day on which the cause is docketed for hearing, make out and furnish the court a clear and concise statement of the case, and the points intended to be insisted on in the argument." It has generally been considered sufficient if this statement or brief is placed upon the files before the case is reached upon the docket, but it has never been dispensed with on the part of the appellant, andrthe usual penalty is the dismissal of his appeal.
We find no err.or in this action of the District Court, and the other judges concurring, it.will be affirmed.