Case Name: SHADVILLE, Appellant, v. BARKER et al., Respondents
Court: Montana Supreme Court
Jurisdiction: Montana
Decision Date: 1901-10-29
Citations: 26 Mont. 45
Docket Number: No. 1,727
Parties: SHADVILLE, Appellant, v. BARKER et al., Respondents.
Judges: 
Reporter: Montana Reports
Volume: 26
Pages: 45–50

Head Matter:
SHADVILLE, Appellant, v. BARKER et al., Respondents.
(No. 1,727.)
ON Motion to Dismiss Appeals.
(Submitted October 28, 1901.
Decided October 29, 1901.)
Appeal — Time of Filing Transcript — Laches—Defective Authentication of Transcript — Dismissal.
under Supreme Court Rule IV, Subdivision 2, an appeal will be dismissed where appellant is guilty of laches in not filing the transcript with the clerk of the supreme court within 60 days after the appeal was perfected.
On Reheaking.
1. Where on appeal the transcript prepared and certified by the clerk is defective for failure- to comply with the rules, and appellant’s counsel prepares a corrected transcript, and, instead of having the clerk certify thereto as required by Code of Civil Procedure, Sec. 1739, detaches the certificate from the defective transcript and attaches it to the corrected one, without the knowledge or authority of the clerk, such transcript cannot be considered.
2. under Code of Civil Procedure, Sec. 1905, and Political Code, Sec. 4636, providing that transcripts on appeal must be certified by the clerk, under seal, after comparison with the original files, no other method of authentication is lawful.
Appeal from District Court, Cascade County; J. B. Leslie, Judge.
ActioN by Ida May Shadville against Marcella S. Barker and another, hair's of Edwin J. Barker, deceased. Erom a judgment in favor of defendants, and from an order denying a new trial, plaintiff appeals.
Appeals dismissed on motion.
Mr. Robert B. Smith, Mr. F. II. Could, and Mr. W. H. Alford, for Appellant.
Mr. William G. Downing and Mr. Thomas C. Brady, for Respondents.

Opinion:
MB. CHIEE JUSTICE BRANTLY
delivered the opinion of the court.
Motion to dismiss the appeals herein from the judgment and an order denying a new trial on the ground that the transcript was not filed with the clerk of this court within sixty days after the appeals were perfected, as required by Subdivision 2 of Rule IV of the rules of this court.
Erom the papers filed in support of the motion it appears that the appeals were perfected on August 3,1901. The motion to dismiss was filed on October 8. The typewritten transcript was lodged with the clerk on October 22. This was furnished to counsel for the appellant, upon demand, not later than September 11, or twenty-seven days prior to the filing of the motion. Counsel for appellant attempt to excuse their neglect to lodge the same with the clerk of this court within the prescribed time, on the ground that the original copy furnished by the clerk of the district court was not prepared in conformity with. the rules of this court as to form and contents, and that the fault lies with that officer, and not with them. It appears, however, that though, at the time they received the transcript from the clerk, on September 11, they still had eighteen days within which to have the transcript corrected, and to comply with the rule, they failed and neglected to do so; for it appears that at no time thereafter did they demand of the clerk that he correct the copy furnished, or prepare and furnish one meeting the requirements of the rule of this court as to form and contents. Nor have they yet done so, as they admit that the transcript now in the hands of the clerk of this court is the defective copy originally furnished them by the clerk of the district court. While the rule invoked by respondents provides that, if the delay in filing the transcript has been without laches on the part of the appellant, his appeal will not be dismissed for such delay until a reasonable time has been allowed for filing it, no such sufficient excuse has been rendered in this case why the penalty should not be inflicted.
(Decided December 2, 1901.)
It is therefore ordered that the appeals be dismissed.
Dismissed.