Case ID: tex-civ-app_26/html/0365-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "\n      RAINEY, Chief Justice.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Joe and William Wesley v. R. B. Kuteman.
    Decided May 2, 1901.
    1. —Appeal—Notice.
    That plaintiff below gave notice of appeal will not inure to the benefit of the defendant so as to entitle him, plaintiff having failed to perfect an appeal, to prosecute an appeal without notice given and have the clerk file the transcript in the appellate court.
    2. —Same—Affidavit in Lieu of Appeal Bond — Certainty.
    The same certainty is required of an affidavit of inability to give an appeal bond as is required of such a bond, and the affidavit is insufficient where it fails-to give the date of the judgment, the nature thereof and in whose favor rendered.
    Original motion to file transcript.
    
      M. D. Carlock, for motion.
   RAINEY, Chief Justice.

This is a motion by appellants to require the clerk to file the transcript in this case. The transcript tendered for filing shows that this suit was brought by appellee, R. B. Kuteman, to recover title to land agains t a number of defendants, among whom were the appellants. A trial resulted in a judgment for plaintiff as against appellants, and in favor of the other defendants. Plaintiff’ filed a motion for a new trial, upon the overruling of which he gave notice of appeal, which was entered of record. No further effort was made by plaintiff to perfect his appeal. The appellants gave no notice of appeal, but within twenty days after the overruling of plaintiff's motion for new trial, they filed an affidavit of inability to give bond, in lieu of an appeal bond. It is essential to the right of appeal that the “appellant” give notice of apirea 1 in open court. Rev. •Stats., art. 1387. The appellants herein did not give notice of an appeal, but insist that the notice given by plaintiff, appellee here, inured to their benefit. In this we do not concur.

The affidavit in lieu of an appeal bond filed by appellants fails to identify the judgment with sufficient certainty. It fails to give the date •of the judgment, the nature thereof, and in whose favor rendered. The same certainty is required as in an appeal bond. Perry v. Scott, 68 Texas, 208; Holmes v. McIntyre, 61 Texas, 9.

The motion is refused.

Motion overruled.