Chaffe v. McIntosh

On Motion to Dismiss.

The opinion of the Court was delivered by

Manning, J.

The motion for dismissal is based on the alleged failure to file the transcript in time. The return day is Monday, June 2d. The court was not in session on that day, nor until Saturday the 7th.— this last being the earliest day the Judges could reach Monroe after holding court at New Orleans on the last day of May, as they are required to do by the Constitution. The court had been opened on the 2d. by the clerk, and was adjourned from day to day until the 7th., when we arrived and sat, and on that day the transcript was…