Court Opinion

ID: 9864395
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-09-25 12:58:02.879328+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T12:11:38.674470
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OPINION ON REHEARING. Hart, C. J. We cannot grant the request of counsel for appellees to consider the liability of Frank Strang-way sas indorser of the note of Herbert Foreman, for the following reasons: The decree in favor of Frank Strangways was entered of record in the chancery court on July 6, 1927. No appeal was taken from the decree in his favor by the Little Rock Motor Car Company until January 5, 1928. The time for -appeal expired on the next day. No summons was issued until March 15, 1928. Summons was served Frank -Strangways on that day; and on April 30, 1928, he filed a motion to dismiss the appeal against him. There was an unreasonably -delay in the issuance and service of summons. -Summons should have been issued immediately and served within a reasonable time. Therefore we must dismiss the appeal of the Little Rock Motor Car Company so far as Frank Strangways is concerned. Claiborne v. Leonard, 88 Ark. 391, 114 S. W. 917, and Birmingham v. Rice, 90 Ark. 306, 118 S. W. 1017. The fact that Frank Strangways appeared as -attorney for Herbert Foreman did not enter his own appearance to the appeal. It follows that the motion for a rehearing must be denied.