WOLFF v. WOLFF

No. 84-1969 Summary Calendar.

768 F.2d 642 (1985)

L. Richard WOLFF, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. L. Carl WOLFF, Defendant-Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

August 15, 1985.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Christopher M. Weil, Anthony A. Petrocchi, Dallas, Tex., for defendant-appellant.

W.W. Mitchell, II, Bruce Akerly, Dallas, Tex., for plaintiff-appellee.

Before RUBIN, RANDALL and TATE, Circuit Judges.


ALVIN B. RUBIN, Circuit Judge:

A party who consented to trial before a magistrate, with appeal of right to the district court pursuant to the Magistrate's Act,1 seeks to appeal the district court's judgment. The Act permits such an appeal only with leave of the circuit court based upon a petition "stating specific objections to the judgment."2 Because this court has never announced the standards by which we...

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