Cardwell v. Bell

FLY, Chief Justice.

Appellees, on October 4, 1926, filed their motion to affirm the judgment against appellant on certificate. Every requirement in the statutes in such cases has been complied with, and the facts have all been admitted in a motion denominated an “Answer to Ap-pellees’ Motion to Affirm on Certificate,” which was filed on October 9, 1926. In that pleading appellant seeks to excuse his failure to file the transcript and statement on the ground that his attorney had been promised by the district clerk of Wilson county that he would file the record, but had failed to do so. After…