Edwards v. Town of Henderson

Clark, J.:

The appellant says that he entrusted the duty of causing the record to be printed to his counsel. Counsel offer no excuse except that they were busy and forgot to have it done. The duty of having the record printed is not a professional one, since the client can attend to it himself, and might easily have it printed below and sent up with the transcript. Hence, if counsel assume to discharge such duty, they are pro hac vice agents, not counsel, and their neglect is the neglect of the party himself, as was held in Griffin v. Nelson, 106 N. C., 235, which has been cited with approval…