Opinion
No. 2625.
February 13, 1969.
APPEAL FROM NINTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, PARISH OF RAPIDES, WALTER M. HUNTER, J.
John M. Sherrill, III, Alexandria, for plaintiff-appellant.
Gist, Methvin Trimble, by James T. Trimble, Jr., Alexandria, for defendant-appellee.
Before TATE, SAVOY, and HOOD, JJ.
The appellant did not appear in person or through counsel when this case was called for argument on the date it had been docketed for hearing, and no brief was filed in his behalf. The appeal, therefore, is considered as having been abandoned, and accordingly, the appeal is hereby dismissed. Rule VII, Section 5(b), Uniform Rules of the Courts of Appeal (1963), 8 LSA-R.S.
The costs of this appeal are assessed to plaintiff-appellant.
Appeal dismissed.