Case Name: JOHN L. HINTON v. GRIFFIN PRITCHARD
Court: Supreme Court of North Carolina
Jurisdiction: North Carolina
Decision Date: 1891-02
Citations: 108 N.C. 412
Docket Number: 
Parties: JOHN L. HINTON v. GRIFFIN PRITCHARD.
Judges: 
Reporter: North Carolina Reports
Volume: 108
Pages: 412–413

Head Matter:
JOHN L. HINTON v. GRIFFIN PRITCHARD.
Appeal — Rules 5, 17 and 28.
Where the appellant fails to docket his appeal during the term at which, under the statute and Rules of Court, it should be docketed, it will be dismissed on motion, notwithstanding the appellee did not docket' the certificate and dismiss the appeal, as he might have done under Rule 17.
Motion to dismiss appeal.
Messrs. E. F. Aydlette and W. J Griffin, for appellant.
Mr. W. D. Pruden, for appellee.

Opinion:
Clakk, J.:
The appellee moves to dismiss the appeal on the grounds—
1. That the record has not been printed, as required by Rule 28.
2. That the appeal was not docketed at the Fall Term, 1890, of this Court, as required by Rule 5, the judgment therein having been rendered prior to the beginning of said term.
3. That the appellant has filed no appeal bond.
The appellant makes no defence as to the first ground assigned. As to the second, he files an affidavit of his counsel that, though the judgment was rendered and the case on appeal was settled by the Judge prior to the beginning of the Fall Term of this Court, he omitted, in the press of business, to notify his client (the appellant) till after the docket of the district had been called, and when it was too late to have the cause argued at that term. The appeal was docketed here January 23, 1891. If this excuse were entitled to any consideration it is sufficient to say that, although the hearing of that district had passed, as the appellee had not dock eted and dismissed the appeal as entitled to do (Rule 17), it was still the privilege and the duty of the appellant to docket his appeal during the Fall Term of this Court. Porter v. Railroad, 106 N. C., 478.
As to the third ground of the motion, the appellant has not offered to file a bond, or make a deposit in lieu thereof, which the Court is authorized, in its discretion, to permit to be done. Acts 1889, chapter 135.
On either one of the grounds assigned in his motion, the appellee is entitled to have the
Appeal dismissed.
Note. — Joyner v. Hines and Whitehead v. Blandiford, from Pitt County, and Rodman v. Archbell, from Beaufort County, were dismissed at this term upon same ground.