
    INTERNATIONAL UNION OF OPERATING ENGINEERS, LOCAL NO. 407, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Forrest W. DEROUEN, Defendant-Appellant.
    No. 4018.
    Court of Appeal of Louisiana, Third Circuit.
    Nov. 10, 1972.
    Louis B. Guidry, Lake Charles, for defendant-appellant.
    Baggett, Hawsey & McClain by William B. Baggett, Lake Charles, for plaintiff-appellee.
    Before FRUGÉ, HOOD and MILLER, JJ-
   MILLER, Judge.

Appellant Forrest W. Derouen neither appeared nor filed a brief prior to the October 31, 1972 call of this case for argument. The appeal is considered abandoned and dismissed pursuant to LSA-C.C.P. Art. 2162; Rule VII, Section 5(b), Uniform Rules, Court of Appeal, Vol. 8 LSA-R.S., page 392; American Laminating Mfg. Co., Inc. v. Attaway, 233 So.2d 583 (La.App. 3 Cir. 1970).

Costs of this appeal are assessed to defendant appellant.

Appeal dismissed.  