Brantly v. . Jordan

The plaintiff moved at the present term to dismiss the appeal in this case upon the ground that the appellant has failed for two terms before the present term to prosecute his appeal.

It appears that the appeal was taken at the Spring Term, 1882, of the Superior Court of Northampton county and docketed in this court at its October Term of that year. The appellant has not given his appeal attention at any term since it came into this court, indeed he has wholly neglected it, and it is again reached in the regular order.

It is provided in paragraph 4 of Rule 2, among other things, as follows:…