176 P. 620 | Utah | 1918
An action on a note and mortgage. Defendants set np certain counterclaims which were allowed by the court below as a set-off against the mortgage debt, and a foreclosure was decreed as to the balance of the mortgage debt then remaining unpaid. Plaintiff appeals from that part of the decree allowing the set-off.
Respondents move to dismiss appellant’s appeal on the ground that the record on appeal, or "transcript,” as it is usually called, was not filed in the Supreme Court within 30 days after the appeal was perfected in the court below.
An appeal is perfected when notice of appeal has been served and filed andr the bond required by statute has been filed. Comp. Laws 1907, section 3305.
It is provided by statute, Comp. Laws 1907, section 3317, that an appeal may be dismissed for the failure of appellant to file in this court the record on appeal within thirty days after perfecting such appeal. The same provision, in substance and effect, is contained in Rules 2 and 3 of this court (33 Utah VI, 97 Pac. vii).
The identical delinquency complained of by respondents in this case has been discussed by this court in other cases. There are certain rules of procedure and of limitation touching appeals that must be enforced more or less rigorously for the purpose of establishing order in this court, and for the additional purposes of compelling progress in litigation and relieving interested parties from uncertainty and anxiety. The rule invoked belongs to this class.
The law in question is not a rule sacro sanct. If application for an extension of time within which to file the transcript is made in advance to this court or to any justice thereof, and any reasonable cause for such extension
In this case the appeal was perfected on May 16, 1918. The transcript was sent to the clerk of this court by the clerk of the district court within thirty days from that date, but the filing fee was not paid to the clerk of this court until August 23, 1918. Here is a delinquency of more than
Another statute that has been in force for more than twenty years provides that the clerk of the Supreme Court (and other state’ officers) shall collect these statutory fees in advance for the use and benefit of the state. Comp. Laws 1907, section 964.
We must hold that appellant and his attorneys knew that the record would not be filed unless the filing fee was paid. Under our law the filing of the record consists of two acts, one of which is payment of the fee, and the other
In the case of Howell v. Clark, 16 Utah, 410, 52 Pac. 631, appellant was sixteen days late in filing his transcript. He offered as an excuse the fact that his attorney in Ogden had ordered the clerk of the district court to make up the record immediately, but the clerk did not do so, and appellant did not know of the procrastination on the part of the clerk until after the period for filing the transcript had expired. The appeal was dismissed.
The motion to dismiss the appeal is granted. Eespondents to recover costs.