State ex rel. Williams

Louisiana Court of Appeal

Decided September 25, 1974

Louisiana Court of Appeal · decided 1974-09-25

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Decided 1974-09-25

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Cited by 48 later decisions — most recently December 2016 · most notably 420 So. 2d 1181 - Josephs v. Austin (1982), 307 So. 2d 798 - Wade v. McInnis-Peterson Chevrolet, Inc. (1975)

1 federal appellate · 47 state decisions

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¶1ON MOTION TO DISMISS APPEAL

MILLER, Judge.

¶2The defendant-appellant, Mark Wayne Williams, moves to dismiss his unlodged appeal from the Fourteenth Judicial District Court. The motion is unopposed. We dismiss.

¶3Rule VII, Section 3, paragraph 2 of the Uniform Rules — Courts of Appeal provides as follows:

“In the absence of a timely answer to the appeal or other formal action to amend or modify the judgment appealed, the appellant alone may, by his formal motion to dismiss, on leave of the court, forthwith abandon his appeal and obtain its dismissal.”

¶4There being no objection to the Motion to Dismiss, the appeal is hereby dismissed at mover’s cost.

¶5Appeal dismissed.