Coulliette v. Thomason
Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
Appeal from the Circuit Court of the United States for the Western District of Louisiana. In Equity. Bill by ,T. Sidney Goulliette and others against Mrs. Mary II. Thomason and L. B. Thomason to recover certain lands and for an accounting. Decree rejecting complainants’ demands, and quieting title in defendant Mary H. Thomason, as against them. Complainants appeal.
1Opinion of the Court
Pardee, Circuit Judge.
The appellees filed a motion to dismiss the appeal in this case because no assignment of errors was filed in the court below, or forms part of the transcript of record. The failure to make an assignment of errors, under rule 11 of the rules of this court, is sufficient ground to refuse to hear counsel, but not, perhaps, in all cases sufficient to dismiss the appeal. In this case, however, we find, not only an omission of the assignment of errors, hut a failure to file briefs, and that an examination of the record does not show any plain error in the decree appealed from.…
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