Court Opinion

ID: 9825715
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-09-01 14:00:16.249492+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T07:41:18.185413
License: Public Domain

George Rose Smith, J. On rehearing. When this case was first submitted neither the transcript nor the briefs indicated that appellant’s four children were parties to the action in the trial court. With his petition for rehearing appellant tenders a supplemental transcript containing an intervention by these children, which was filed before trial but omitted from the original record, and a nunc pro tunc decree reciting the interveners’ appearance at the trial. We are asked to withdraw our first opinion and render a decision on the merits. In some instances we may permit an amendment of the transcript on rehearing. Morton v. State, 208 Ark. 492, 187 S. W. 2d 335. But here the question is one of power. Appeals to this court must be taken within six months after the rendition of the decree. Ark. Stats. (1947), § 27-2106. In this case no attempt was made to bring the interveners before this court until more than two months after the time for appeal had expired. To allow this action now would have the effect of extending the time for appeal, which we cannot do. Caudle v. Turner, 179 Ark. 337, 15 S. W. 2d 978. Rehearing denied.