Case Name: Coulliette et al. v. Thomason et al.
Court: United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
Jurisdiction: United States
Decision Date: 1892-06-06
Citations: 50 F. 787
Docket Number: No. 18
Parties: Coulliette et al. v. Thomason et al.
Judges: Before Pardee and McCormick, Circuit Judges, and Locke, District Judge.
Reporter: Federal Reporter
Volume: 50
Pages: 787–788

Head Matter:
Coulliette et al. v. Thomason et al.
(Circuit Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.
June 6, 1892.)
No. 18.
Aimt.at, to Circuit Court or Appeals--Time or Taking — Dismissal.
An appeal taken to the circuit court of appeals more than six months after entry of the decree must be dismissed, under Judiciary Act 1891, § 11.
Appeal from the Circuit Court of the United States for the Western District of Louisiana.
In Equity. Bill by ,T. Sidney Goulliette and others against Mrs. Mary II. Thomason and L. B. Thomason to recover certain lands and for an accounting. Decree rejecting complainants’ demands, and quieting title in defendant Mary H. Thomason, as against them. Complainants appeal.
Appeal dismissed.
Boatner & Lankin, for appellants.
Frank N. Butler, for appellees.
Before Pardee and McCormick, Circuit Judges, and Locke, District Judge.

Opinion:
Pardee, Circuit Judge.
The appellees filed a motion to dismiss the appeal in this case because no assignment of errors was filed in the court below, or forms part of the transcript of record. The failure to make an assignment of errors, under rule 11 of the rules of this court, is sufficient ground to refuse to hear counsel, but not, perhaps, in all cases sufficient to dismiss the appeal. In this case, however, we find, not only an omission of the assignment of errors, hut a failure to file briefs, and that an examination of the record does not show any plain error in the decree appealed from. And we notice in the record that the decree appealed from in the court below was rendered on the 11th day of October, 1890; that the motion and order for appeal to this court were not made nor granted until September 10, 1891, more than six months alter the date of the entry of the decree appealed from; that the order allowing the appeal made the same returnable more than 30 days after the date thereof; and that the citation was made returnable more than 30 days thereafter. The fact alone that the appeal was not taken until more than six months after the entry of the decree appealed from (section 11 of the judiciary act of 1891) requires the appeal to be dismissed, and it is so ordered.