Neither the appellants nor appellees have filed a brief in this case, and it therefore becomes our duty to dismiss the cause for want of prosecution, as provided by rule 38 for the Courts of Civil Appeals.
See, also, article 1846, R.C.S. 1925 (as amended by Acts 1931, c. 45, § 2 [Vernon's Ann.Civ.St. art. 1846]).