Drake v. Davis

Respondent has moved “to terminate proceedings in the above entitled cause and to dismiss the same” on the ground that the appellant-defendants have not taken the first step requisite to the preparation of a record on appeal, and hence have failed to prosecute their appeals with diligence. We have concluded that the defendants are in default, without excuse, in the preparation of the record on appeal, and that in consequence an order should he made, not terminating proceedings, hut dismissing the appeals.

When the new rules, governing appeals in civil cases from *1001municipal courts, came into…