Case ID: willson_3/html/0549-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "White, P. J.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

A. T. Forst v. F. Mayer.
    (No. 5637.)
    April 10, 1889.
    Appeal from Menard County.
    Marshall Fulton and J. A. Smith, counsel for appellant.
    H. M* Holmes .and J. M. Moore, counsel for appellee.
   Opinion by

White, P. J.

§450. Appeal from justice’s court; certified copy of bill of costs; transcript held sufficient. Appellee having recovered a judgment against appellant in justice’s court, the latter appealed to the county court, and the appeal was dismissed on motion of appellee, upon the ground that the transcript w-as not accompanied by a certified copy of the bill of costs taken from the justice’s fee-book, as inquired by ax-tide 1640, Revised Statutes. While there is xxo certified copy of the bill of costs separate from the transcript, there is a bill of costs amounting to $23.55 in the transcript, and following it a certificate of the justice that the transcript is .a true one of all the entries on his docket, etc. Held: There was a substantial compliance with said article 1640, and the court erred in dismissing the appeal.

Reversed and remanded.