Rivers v. Metropolitan Life Insurance Co. of New York

This is the second appeal pending in this canse. Judgment in the main case was entered in the district court for the defendant on February 9, 1942. Plaintiff appealed from the 'latter judgment. Motion by appellee to dismiss said appeal, for reasons which we will now refer to, was ordered by the court to be submitted with the appeal now before us. Appellee states that on March 30, 1942, its attorneys at Des Moines received in the mail an envelope, bearing the name of one of the attorneys for appellant, containing a purported notice of appeal by the appellant from the judgment of February 9,…