Tucker Products Corp. v. Helms

Defendants and appellees move to dismiss the appeal herein on the ground that the time to file the transcript of record in the district court for docketing the appeal expired on November 10, 1948, ninety days after the filing of the notice of appeal, and the transcript and required filing fee were not tendered the clerk of this court until December 1, 1948.

We agree that the appeal should be dismissed. The contention of plaintiff and appellant is that its attorneys, officers of this court, may engage in other litigation and that this “preoccupation in other matters” relieves them of the…