Criner v. Criner

The question is -whether this Court has power to direct retrial of a cause on petition of those who would have appealed had they been able to file the record within the time prescribed by law.

On January 17, 1950, Alice Criner and others filed with the Clerk of this Court a certified copy of a Ouachita Chancery Court decree in an action they had brought against John H. Criner and a list of named defendants. The subject-matter was involved in a decision of this Court rendered January 26, 1948, Criner v. Ritchie, 212 Ark. 815, 208 S. W. 2d 447. In the present action there were 93 plaintiffs, all…