Opinion
No. 1197.
June 24, 1964.
APPEAL FROM NINTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, PARISH OF RAPIDES, STATE OF LOUISIANA, HONORABLE GUY E. HUMPHRIES, J.
Bernard Kramer, Alexandria, for plaintiff-appellant.
Stafford Pitts, by John L. Pitts, Alexandria, for defendants-appellees.
Before TATE, FRUGÉ and SAVOY, 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, 8 LSA-R.S.; Dees v. Snyder (La.App., 3 Cir., 1962), 147 So.2d 677, and cases cited therein.
The costs of this appeal are assessed to appellant.
Appeal dismissed.