
    Richard W. BOWEN, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. F. C. DOYAL, Jr., Administrator of the Division of Employment Security of the Department of Labor, State of Louisiana and Roy O. Martin Lumber Company, Defendants-Appellees.
    No. 4002.
    Court of Appeal of Louisiana, Third Circuit.
    Sept. 25, 1972.
    Rehearing Denied Oct. 25, 1972.
    Edward Larvadian, Legal Aid Society, Alexandria, for plaintiff-appellant; Richard W. Bowen, in pro. per.
    Marion Weimer, Baton Rouge, Gold, Hall, Hammill & Little by Harry A. Ham-mill, Alexandria, for defendants-appellees.
    
      Before SAVOY, HOOD and MILLER, JJ-
   HOOD, Judge.

Plaintiff, Richard W. Bowen, appealed from a judgment signed by the trial court on April 4, 1972. The appellant has not filed a brief in this court, and neither he nor his attorney appeared on the date the case was scheduled for argument. Neither has the appellant filed a written pleading or a written instrument of any kind negating an intent to abandon the appeal. No explanation has been given for his failure to appear. Under those circumstances we consider the appeal as having been abandoned and have concluded that the appeal should be dismissed. See Uniform Rules, Courts of Appeal, Rule VII, Section 5(b), 8 LSA-R.S.; Hollier v. Smith, 250 So.2d 497 (La.App. 3 Cir. 1971).

For these reasons the appeal taken in this suit by plaintiff, Richard W. Bowen, is dismissed at his costs.

Appeal dismissed.  