No. 2377.

Nov. 5, 1919.)

#### STROUP et al. v. FRANK A. HUBBELL CO.

SYLLABUS BY THE COURT

Chapter 43, section 36, Laws 1917, held to prevent the extension of time to settle and sign bills of exception, unless a praecipe for the record on appeal or error shall have been filed in the clerk’s office within the time prescribed.

Appeal from District Court, Bernalillo County; Raynolds, Judge.

Action by A. R. Stroup and another against the Frank A. Hubbell Company. Judgment for plaintiffs, and defendant appeals. On motion to strike the bill of exceptions.

Motion sustained.

Marrón & Wood, of Albuquerque, for appellant.

John F. Simms, of Albuquerque, for appellees.

PARKER, C. J.

The appellant was granted an appeal to this court on February 11, 1919. Fifty-six days thereafter he obtained- from the district court an extension of time in which to settle and sign the bill of exceptions. Under that extension order the bill of exceptions was settled and signed on May 14, 1919, and the day following a praecipe for the record was filed by appellant. The appellees have moved to strike the bill of exceptions, on the ground that the trial court was *526without power to extend the time to settle and sign the same because the appellant had not filed a praecipe for the record within 30 days after the taking of the appeal.

In Security Investment Co. v. Socorro, 25 N. M. 200, 179 Pac. 748, we construed section 36, chapter 43, Laws 1917, and held that such act prevented the extension of time to settle and sign bills of exception unless a praecipe for the record on appeal or error shall have been filed in the clerk’s office within the time prescribed.

The motion, therefore, will be sustained,- and the bill of exceptions stricken; and it is so ordered.

Roberts, J., concurs.