TaiLexi AI U.S. Case Law

Lejeune Et Ux. v. Midwestern Ins. Co. Of Oklahoma City, Okl

LEJEUNE Et Ux. v. MIDWESTERN INS. CO. OF OKLAHOMA CITY, OKL.

Lejeune Et Ux. v. Midwestern Ins. Co. Of Okla. City, 197 F.2d 149 (5th Cir. 1952)
Download
Format
Include

Star paging (*137) is kept for pin cites.

Court
Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · U.S. Courts of Appeals
Decided
June 5, 1952
Docket
No. 14071_1
Judges
Hutcheson, Per Curiam, Russell, Strum
Citations
197 F.2d 1491952 U.S. App. LEXIS 2593

Opinion — Per Curiam

PER CURIAM.

Calling to our attention the fact that a summary judgment was entered against plaintiff on January 23, 1952, while the notice of appeal was not filed until February 25, 1952, more than thirty days thereafter, appellee, defendant below, moves to dismiss the appeal for want of jurisdiction. Rule 73(a) and (b), Federal Rules of Civil Procedure, 28 U.S.C.A.

Appellants concede that the facts are as stated in appellee’s motion and that, under rule 6 of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure, the last day on which the plaintiffs could have given their notice of intention to appeal fell on February 23, 1952. They contend, though, that the notice of appeal was timely because, though not filed until February 25th, it was placed in the United States Post Office in Lafayette, Louisiana, for mailing, on February 23rd.

Urging upon us that this was a compliance with the rule, they insist that to hold otherwise would in effect give more time for appealing to persons living in the same place with the clerk than to persons living at other places.

*150 We cannot agree. In Louisiana Discount Corp. v. Commissioner, 5 Cir., 193 F.2d 495 , having to do with the filing with the Tax Court of a petition for review, the same claim was made to, and rejected by this court, on the authority of Poynor v. Commissioner, 5 Cir., 81 F.2d 521 .

The motion to dismiss is granted and the cause is dismissed. Cf. Martin v. Hess, 6 Cir., 176 F.2d 834, 835 ; Lamb v. Shasta Oil Co., 5 Cir., 149 F.2d 729 .

How later courts describe this case

No later court has written an explanatory parenthetical about this case yet.

Cited by 17 cases

View all citing references →
1953: 21955: 11958: 51959: 11961: 11962: 11969: 11975: 11980: 11984: 11985: 11988: 119532026peak 1958 · 5

Citing references are not a citator: they show that a later opinion cites this case, not whether it followed, distinguished, or overruled it. Check negative history before relying on this case.

Authorities cited 4

DepthCaseCited by
Marten v. Hess, 176 F.2d 834 (6th Cir. 1949) 38
Poynor v. Comm'r of Internal Revenue, 81 F.2d 521 (5th Cir. 1936) 30
Lamb v. Shasta Oil Co., 149 F.2d 729 (5th Cir. 1945) 8
La. Disc. Corp. v. Comm'r, 193 F.2d 495 (5th Cir. 1952) 1

Keyboard shortcuts

/Focus the search box
j kNext / previous result
EnterOpen the selected result
xAdd / remove the selected result from the download list
n pNext / previous search term in a case
cCopy the citation of the current case
+ −Larger / smaller reading text
?Show this list