Case ID: va_23/html/0209-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "JUDGE BROOKE,", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Broaddus and Wife v. Turner.
    November, 1823.
    Appeals — Indefinite Time for Executing Bond — Effect. * —Where an appeal is allowed by the Court of Chancery, and an indefinite time given for executing the appeal bond, the appeal is irregular.
    This was a motion by the appellant to docket an appeal from the Fredericksburg Chancery Court. The appeal was allowed in the Court below in May, with liberty to give bond and security, without any limitation of time within which the bond should be executed.
    Stanard, for the apoellant.
    November 14.
   JUDGE BROOKE,

delivered the opinion of the Court, that the allowance of an indefinite time to give bond in the Clerk’s office to prosecute the appeal, was irregular, and the motion was, therefore, over-ruled.