Opinion
No. 5927.
December 5, 1917.
Appeal from District Court, Jim Wells County; V. W. Taylor, Judge.
Action between Celso Arispe and others and Forrest Clark and others. From the judgment, Arispe and others appeal. Appeal dismissed.
T. Wesley Hook, of Kingsville, and L. Broeter, of Alice, for appellants. Dougherty Dougherty, of Beeville, and W. R. Perkins, of Alice, for appellees.
The appellants have not filed briefs in this court, and appellees have filed a brief which is not in compliance with rule 42 for the Courts of Civil Appeals (142 S.W. xiv). The judgment cannot be affirmed, but the appeal will be dismissed. In order for the appellees to have been entitled to an affirmance of the judgment, the case should have been briefed by them as provided in the rule cited. Suderman Dolson v. Carson, 122 S.W. 401; Bowman v. Hoffman, 28 Tex. Civ. App. 311, 67 S.W. 152; American Warehouse Co. v. Hamblen, 146 S.W. 1006; S.W. Oil Gas Co. v. Denny, 187 S.W. 973; Stocking v. Laas, 199 S.W. 500, this day decided by this court.
Appeal dismissed for want of prosecution.