Hart v. Kimberly

46 P. 618, 5 Cal. Unrep. 532

• Court: California Supreme Court
• Decided: October 29, 1896
• Docket: L. A. No. 280
• Status: Published

Opinion

PER CURIAM.

The appeal herein was taken May 26, 1896, and, no transcript on appeal having been filed in this court, the respondents, on August 27th, gave notice to the appellants of a motion to dismiss the appeal. At the hearing of the motion the appellants presented affidavits to the effect that one of the appellants had been ill, and that, while in this condition, had, on June 15th, instructed her attorney to desist from any further proceedings in the cause, and that thereupon he had abandoned all proceedings for filing the transcript; that in the latter part of August the appellant requested her attorney to proceed with said appeal. Upon these statements appellants ask to be relieved from their default, and that they be allowed twenty days within which to file a transcript on appeal. The motion must be denied. No action toward the preparation of the transcript appears to have been taken prior to the direction to the attorney not to proceed with the appeal, or since the subsequent direction to proceed therewith; nor is it shown that this latter direction was given until after receiving the notice to dismiss the appeal. While the illness of the appellant, as shown by the affidavits, might have been urged as ground for an order extending the time within which to file the transcript if such extension had been asked within the forty days, it is not a sufficient reason for relieving her from default when the application therefor is made after the default. The motion to dismiss the appeal is granted.