27 N.M. 222 | N.M. | 1921
OPINION OF THE COURT.
Appellee has filed a motion to dismiss the appeal and affirm the judgment in this cause. A statement of the facts first upon which the motion is based will lead to a better understanding of the motion.
The appeal was taken July 15, 1920; cost bond was filed and approved, and praecipe for the record was filed, all within the statutory time. On September 17, 1920, a motion was filed for additional time to have bill of exceptions settled, signed, and filed. This motion was granted on September 25, and the time was extended for 90 days. The effect of this order was to extend the time for settling and signing the bill of exceptions to January 11, 1921. On December 31, 1920, a motion for further additional time to have bill of exceptions settled, signed, and filed was filed, but the motion was not acted upon until January 26, at which time an order was entered, granting the additional time requested and extending the return day until March 12. The transcript of record was filed in this court within the extended time, and on March 14 appellant filed a motion, requesting the court to grant them two weeks additional time within which to file assignments of error. On March 16 appellee filed this motion to dismiss the appeal and affirm the judgment because (1) assignments of error had not been filed within the time required by the statute; and (2) because the original return day of the appeal had never been extended by the trial court; and (3) because the court was without power to grant the second extension.
It follows that the motion to dismiss the appeal and affirm the judgment must be denied; and it is so ordered.