Court Opinion

ID: 8528676
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Date Created: 2022-11-23 10:58:51.898525+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T16:51:42.746622
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Mb. Chief Justice Del Tobo
delivered the opinion of the «•court.
This is a case of intervention. The appellant obtained an attachment on property claimed by the intervenor as •owner. The intervenor is the appellee and moves for the dismissal of the appeal (1st) because notice of the appeal was not served on one of the interested parties, and (2nd) because the transcript was not filed in time.
The first ground for dismissal is without merit. The facts are convincing that the party who was not notified was not interested in the litigation. He was adjudged in default and, according to a public deed, had parted with the ownership of the attached property when the attachment was levied.
The second ground is good. The judgment appealed from was rendered on June 23, 1923. The appeal was taken June 28th. On the same day the appellant moved the court *857to order the stenographer to prepare the transcript. It was ■so ordered and the transcript was prepared. On September 20, 1923, October 3, 1923, was set for the hearing and on that day the transcript was approved by the court. The appellant did not file the transcript in the office of the secretary of the Supreme Court until November 21, 1923, while the appellee’s motion for dimissal of the appeal had been filed on November 12, 1923.
The appellant claims that the transcript was filed within the thirty days allowed by law, because his attorney did not know that the transcript had been approved on October 3rd until he received a letter to that effect from the stenographer on October 17, 1923.
The attorney for the appellants resides in San Juan. The judgment was rendered by the District Court of Agua-dilla. This fact is invoked. We have said on another occasion that attorneys who reside in one district and assume the responsibility of directing cases in another are not privi-ledged. They should adopt the necessary measures for knowing the status of their cases. The law does not require ■ notice of the approval of the transcript. Furthermore, the record contains a paper signed by the appellant’s attorney on October 1, 1923, wherein he stated that he had no objection to offer to the transcript of the evidence and asked that it be approved. The hearing was set for October 3rd. Logically, he should have concluded that the transcript, which in his opinion contained all that was necessary, would be approved without difficulty on the 3rd of October.
The appellee asserts his right in time and it should be recognized.
The appeal is dismissed.

Appeal dismissed.

Justices Wolf, Aldrey, Hutchison and Franco Soto concurred.