Court Opinion

ID: 7133522
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2022-07-24 15:21:31.227454+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T16:14:32.882311
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CHIEF-JUSTICE LEWIS
delivered the opinion of the court:
As provided by section 734, Civil Code, “the mode of bringing tbe judgment of an inferior court to tbe Court of Appeals, for reversal or modification, shall be by appeal, which shall be granted as a matter of right to a party or privy against a party or parties by the court rendering the judgment, on motion made during the term at which it is rendered or thereafter by the clerk of the Court of Appeals, on application of either party or his privy upon filing in the office of said clerk a copy of the judgment from which he appeals.” .
But section 738 provides that where an appeal has been granted by the court rendering the judgment “the appellant shall file the transcript in the office of the clerk of the Court of Appeals at least twenty days before the first day of the second term of said court *590next after the granting of the appeal, unless the court extend the time, as, for cause shown, the court may do.”
And section 740 provides that “if he fails to file the transcript within the time allowed by section 738, or, by the court pursuant thereto, his appeal shall be dismissed.”
The appeal granted in this case by the court rendering the judgment was, December 18, 1896, on motion of appellee, dismissed because the transcript was not filed within the time prescribed by section 738. And now the present motion is to set aside that order of dismissal upon the ground that at the time, which was during the June term, 1896, the judgment was rendered, and an appeal to the Court of Appeals granted, leave was given to appellant until the fifth clay of the next term of the inferior court in which to present and file its bill of exceptions therein.
Section 334 does authorize the court rendering a judgmenttogivetothepartyobjecting time to procure a bill of exceptions, not beyond a day in the succeeding term to be fixed by the court, but the time within which the appellant is required by section 738 to file the transcript can not be computed from the date of filing the bill of exceptions; but, as therein expressly provided, from the date of the order granting the appeal which, as prescribed by section 734, must be made, if at all, during the term at which the judgment is rendered. This court, therefore, had, according to the explicit requirement of section 740, no discretion but *591“to sustain the motion to dismiss the appeal made December 18, 1896.
Whatever seeming hardship there may be in enforcing these rules of practice can be avoided by the appellant applying to the Court of Appeals for an extension of the time of filing the transcript, which, for cause shown, may, as provided by section 738, be done.
The motion to set aside the order of December 18, 1896, is overruled.