Magnolia Petroleum Co. v. Klingeman

Appellees have filed a motion to dismiss the appeal in this cause. Their contention is that the motion for a new trial was not amended within twenty days, nor presented to the court within thirty days from its filing, and was therefore overruled by law more .than thirty days before the appeal bond was filed, and more than sixty days before the record was filed in this Court, and that therefore we have no jurisdiction to hear such appeal and have no alternative but must dismiss the appeal.

Appellants’ motion for a new trial was prematurely filed on April 30, 1951, the judgment not having been…