Bienvenu v. Factors' & Traders' Insurance Co.

A motion is made to dismiss this appeal on the ground that the transcript was filed too late. The appeal, taken by one of the defendants only, was made returnable on the third Monday, being the twentieth day of March, 1876. On the twenty-seventh of March, the return-day was extended to the third Monday (seventeenth day) of April, 1876. The transcript was not filed until the twenty-ninth of April. But the appellant contends that, as this court adjourned on Saturday, the fifteenth of April, to the first day of May, he had no opportunity of applying for a second extension, and therefore it was…