Court Opinion

ID: 8854757
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2022-11-26 17:26:12.385183+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T17:05:37.102034
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SIM ONTOX, Circuit Judge.
This is a motion to dismiss the appeal in this case (1) because appellant did not print and file 20 copies of the record 20 days before the beginning of the term; (2) because he did not furnish to the appellees 3 copies of the record 10 days before the term; (3) because he did not file 20 copies of printed brief 10 days before the term. Rule 16 of this court (11 C. C. A. cvi., 47 Fed. viii.) makes it the duty of appellant to docket the case and file a record thereof with the clerk of this court by or before the return day, whether in vacation or in term time. The decree appealed from was filed on December 4, 1895. Appeal allowed, and citation issued 4th January, 1896. The record was filed 22d day of January, 1896, and the return day of the citation was 1st February, 1896. So in this respect (he appellant was within the rule. It is true, he might by great diligence have filed the record sooner, but he was not required to do so, and cannot be punished for not doing so. The record having been filed on 22d of January, and printed on the 30th January, it was impossible for appellant to file printed copies with the clerk 20 days before the term, which began 4th February, 1896, as required by rule 23 (11 C. C. A. lii., 48 Fed. iii.), and equally impossible for him to file with the clerk 10 days before the term printed copies of his brief, as required by rule 24, Id. But as his inability to do these resulted from the late date at which the record was filed and printed, and as the filing at that date broke no rule of this court, he cannot he punished for not following rules 23 and 24. Circumstances prevented the trial of the case at this term. It is continued, the motion being refused.