Court Opinion

ID: 3471139
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2016-07-05 20:40:13.283943+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T14:08:29.741648
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There was judgment for the plaintiff in the court of original jurisdiction. The defendants perfected a suspensive appeal from the judgment, returnable to the Court of Appeal, Second Circuit. After the case was submitted in the Court of Appeal, that court found that it was without jurisdiction ratione materiæ and it entered the following order:
"It is therefore ordered that this appeal be transferred to the Supreme Court. The clerk of this court is ordered to transmit the record to the clerk of the Third district court of Union parish that transcript may be made up and filed in the Supreme Court, in keeping with its rules, within thirty days from date hereof." 160 So. 145.
The motion to dismiss is based upon two alleged facts, viz.: That the transcript was not filed in the Supreme Court timely, and that no extension of time *Page 113 
within which to file the transcript in this court was applied for or granted.
It appears that the order or judgment of the Court of Appeal was rendered on April 1, 1935, and that the transcript was filed in this court June 28, 1935. It is, therefore, a fact that the transcript was not filed timely, and this court has judicial knowledge of the fact that no application has been made to it for an extension of time within which to file it. C.P. arts. 587, 883.
It is the duty of the appellants to file the transcript. Abraham v. Wallenberg, 130 La. 1096, 58 So. 895. Where transcript is filed after delays for filing have expired, a motion to dismiss the appeal must prevail. Whitney Central Trust  Savings Bank v. Greenwood Planting  Manufacturing Co., Ltd.,146 La. 572, 83 So. 834. In the transfer of a case by the Court of Appeal to the Supreme Court, it is the duty of the Court of Appeal to fix the return day. Act No. 19 of 1912, amending and re-enacting Act No. 56 of 1904; Scott v. Ratcliff, 167 La. 237, 239,119 So. 33.
For the reasons assigned, the motion to dismiss this appeal is maintained, and the appeal is therefore dismissed, at appellants' cost.
                              On Rehearing.