Case ID: scl_18/html/0116-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "Per Johnson J.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Exparte A. W. Thompson.
    A party, dissatisfied with the decree of a Court of Ordinary, must tender his appeal within twenty days, and prosecute it with reasonable dispatch afterwards: Where, after filing a suggestion, the appellant neglected to docket it, or to take any other step in the cause for two years: Held, to be a discontinuance, and leave to docket refused, vide act of 1799, 2 Faust. 316. Kennedy v. Smith, 2 Bay, 214. 3 Bl. Com. 296. Bac. Abr. Pleas and Pleading. P.
   Per Johnson J.

affirming the decision of Mr. Justice Gantt, at Union, Fall Term, 1330.

O’Neall J. and Harper J. concurred.