Frontiero v. Brown

This is a motor vehicle tort action in which judgment was entered for the defendant on February 3,1994. The plaintiff’s appeal to this Division was thus governed by former Dist./Mun. Cts. R. Civ. P, Rule 64.1

1. The plaintiff seasonably commenced this appeal pursuant to former Rule 64(c) (1) by filing a draft report within ten days of the entry of judgment. However, as is evident from the subsequent, unduly protracted sequence of events, the plaintiff repeatedly failed to take timely, appropriate action to preserve the viability of her appeal, and thereby forfeited any right to appellate…