126 Ga. 679 | Ga. | 1906
The Bank of Minden sued Long in the city court of Elberton, and recovered a judgment. The defendant made a motion for a new trial, which was overruled, and he filed a bill of exceptions assigning error upon this judgment. The plaintiff filed a cross-bill, assigning error upon the refusal of the judge to dismiss the motion for a new trial, and also filed an independent bill of exceptions containing the same assignment of error. For want of time the Supreme Court was unable to hear oral argument in all civil cases entered upon the docket of the March term, 1906. On June 22, 1906, an order was passed directing and requiring briefs to be filed on July 16 in all cases- in which oral argument had not been heard by that date, and it was also provided that a call of the docket would be had on July 18, and cases in which no briefs had, on or before July 16, been filed for plaintiffs in error would be dismissed for want of prosecution, unless a sufficient reason to the contrary was shown. The cases now before us were embraced in this order. When the docket was called on July 18, it appeared that no briefs had been filed on July 16 for the plaintiff in error in the ease of Long v. Bank of Minden. It did appear that a brief for plaintiff in error had been delivered to the clerk by mail on July 17. Application was made to allow this brief to be filed as of July 16.
Writ of error in each case dismissed.