Case ID: ala_31/html/0243-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "STONE, J.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

MABRY vs. DICKENS.
    [motion to dismiss suit fob want of secukity fob costs.]
    1. When appeal lien. — An appeal does not lie from an order of tlio circuit court, overruling a motion to dismiss the suit for want of security for costs.
    2. Jurisdiction by consent. — Consent of parties, express or implied, cannot confer on the appellate court jurisdiction of a cause in which there is no final judgment to support the appeal.
    Erom the the Circuit Court of Barbour.
    Tried before the Hon. S. D. Hale.
    Isr this case, as the bill of exceptions shows, the defendant moved to dismiss the suit, on the ground that the plaintiff, being a non-resident, liad not given security for the costs. The court overruled the motion, and the defendant excepted; and he now assigns the ruling of the court as error.
    
      Jj. L. Cato, for the defendant.
    Pugii & Bullock, contra.
    
   STONE, J.

— In this case, no appeal has been taken to this court; nor has a final judgment been rendered in the court below, from which an appeal could be taken. "While the joinder in error may, under the authority of Thompson v. Lea, 28 Ala. 453, operate a waiver of the want of an appeal, the parties cannot waive a final judgment, and, by consent, give this court jurisdiction of the case. — Code, § 3016. Appeal dismissed.