Case Name: Jewell KISSINGER, et al. v. Henry TURNER
Court: Arkansas Court of Appeals
Jurisdiction: Arkansas
Decision Date: 1995-03-15
Citations: 49 Ark. App. 1
Docket Number: CA 94-384
Parties: Jewell KISSINGER, et al. v. Henry TURNER
Judges: Cooper and Mayfield, JJ., dissent.
Reporter: Arkansas Appellate Reports
Volume: 49
Pages: 1–3

Head Matter:
Jewell KISSINGER, et al. v. Henry TURNER
CA 94-384
894 S.W.2d 614
Court of Appeals of Arkansas En Banc
Opinion delivered March 15, 1995
[Rehearing denied April 12, 1995.]
Blackman Law Firm, by: Keith Blackman, for appellant.
Mooney Law Firm, by: Tom A. Bennett, for appellee.

Opinion:
John E. Jennings, Chief Judge.
This case is a boundary line dispute. Because the record on appeal was not timely lodged, we have determined that we lack jurisdiction to hear the appeal and therefore it must be dismissed.
The judgment in the case at bar was entered by the Craighead County Chancery Court on August 30, 1993. Appellants filed a timely notice of appeal on September 13, 1993. Appellants then obtained an order of the chancery court extend ing the time to file the record on appeal to April 11, 1994. In this the trial court exceeded its authority because Rule 5(b) of the Rules of Appellate Procedure provides that "in no event shall the time be extended more than seven months from the date of entry of the decree. . . ."
The case at bar is indistinguishable from Morris v. Stroud, 317 Ark. 628, 831 S.W.2d 1 (1994). There, the supreme court held, in virtually identical circumstances, that the appeal must be dismissed for failure to timely lodge the record. We can find no basis to distinguish that case from this one and must therefore dismiss the appeal.
Dismissed.
Cooper and Mayfield, JJ., dissent.
The record was filed on April 7, 1994.