Court Opinion

ID: 9825053
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-09-01 11:59:47.844611+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T08:32:09.081548
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On Rehearing.
The appellee Livingston, by his attorneys, Messrs. Horton & Patton, insists that the application for rehearing should be granted, the reversal of the judgment set aside, and their motion to dismiss the appeal should be considered and granted by this court.
This cause was submitted in the Court of *691Appeals on January 31, 1922; tlie motion to dismiss the appeal was filed in the Court of Appeals with brief attached on February 23, 1922. This was 23 days after the cause was submitted.. There is nothing to show a copy of the motion, and a copy of the brief attached to it, were served on the appellant or his attorneys of record.
This motion requests the court to dismiss the .appeal because “no citation or notice of appeal was issued or served upon appellee J. D. Livingston, as required by Code, § 2881.” The transcript does not contain a copy of the citation of appeal and its service, and the original was not sent to the clerk of the court, as directed by Buie 30 of the Supreme Court; but the certificate of appeal signed and issued by the clerk in this case under Buie 44 of Supreme Court (175 Ala. xxi, 61 South, viii) states:
“That notice of said appeal was on the 24th day of May, 1921, served on Horton & Patton as attorneys of record for said appellee.”
The transcript shows Messrs. Horton & Patton were attorneys of ' record for J. D. Livingston in the circuit court. The contents of this certificate of appeal under this Buie 44 shall not be duplicated when the transcript is prepared, but it shall be attached to the transcript when filed in this court. It is in the transcript in this cause. It is made by Buie 44 a part of the record of this cause. The statement in it as to issuance and service of notice of the appeal does not correspond with the averments in the motion of this appellee. The court will have to be governed and controlled by the statements made in this certificate of appeal issued and signed by the clerk of the circuit court as to the issuance and service of the notice of appeal when, as in this case, there is no evidence to the contrary before us.
The motion to dismiss the appeal is refused, and the application for a rehearing is overruled.
All the Justices concur.