
    Herbert Joseph COURVILLE, Plaintiff and Appellant, v. ANCHOR GASOLINE CORPORATION and Standard Accident Insurance Company, Defendants and Appellees and Third-Party Plaintiffs, CONTINENTAL CASUALTY COMPANY, Third-Party Defendant.
    No. 1408.
    Court of Appeal of Louisiana. Third Circuit.
    April 29, 1965.
    See, also, La.App., 174 So.2d 680.
    John P. Navarre, Oakdale, for plaintiff-appellant.
    Davidson, Meaux, Onebane & Donohoe, by Richard C. Meaux, Lafayette, for defendant-third-party plaintiff-appellee.
    Voorhies, Labbé, Fontenot, Leonard & McGlasson, by H. Lee Leonard, Lafayette, for third-party defendant-appellee.
    Before FRUGÉ, CULPEPPER and HOOD.
   HOOD, Judge.

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 has been filed in his behalf. The appeal, therefore, is considered as having been abandoned, and accordingly the appeal is hereby dismissed. Rule VII, Sec. 5(b), Uniform Rules of the Courts of Appeal, 8 LSA-R.S. (1964 p.p.); Beychok, et ux v. Indemnity Insurance Company of North America, La.App. 2 Cir., 160 So.2d 452; Dees v. Snyder, et ux, La.App. 3 Cir., 147 So.2d 677, and the authorities therein cited. The costs of this appeal are assessed to plaintiff-appellant. LSA-C.C.P. Art. 2164.

Appeal dismissed.  