Case ID: ohio-ch_1/html/0697-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "Wright, J.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

ROBERTS’ EXECUTOR v. WHEELER.
    Appeal by administration — bond on appeal — appeal quashed.
    An executor or administrator who has given bond in this state, may appeal from one coqrt to another without giving an appeal bond.
    Those who have not given Bond for the discharge of their duties, must give an appeal bond like other persons.
    An appeal entered by a foreign administrator who has given no security without appeal bond, . will be quashed.
    Roberts died in New York. His Will was proven in that state, and the executor there qualified. The will has never been recorded in this state, nor any step taken to procure administration' on the estate. The executor appointed in New York, brought this suit •in the Common Pleas, and failing, gave notice of his intention to ¡appeal, without having given bail on the appeal.
    
      Webb, for the defendant,
    moved to quash the appeal, because no bond has been given according to law.
   Wright, J.

The practice act of the 8th March, 4831, (29 O. L. 78) prescribes the method of appealing from the Common Pleas to the Supreme Court, and requires as a general rule that notice be entered on the records of the court at the judgment term of the intention to appeal, and that a bond be filed within thirty days after the close of the term. It provides, further, that in no' case shall executors or administrators be compelled to give bond, in order to perfect an appeal. Four days after this, -the act defining the duties of executors and administrators was passed, in which it is provided: 1. That the executors and administrators appointed within any of the United States or territories, may prosecute any suit in this state in their fiduciary capacity, in the same manner, and under the same regulations, as non-residents aré permitted to sue; and secondly, that executors and administrators, who have given bond in this state, may prosecute appeals from one court to another, without giving bail on tbe appeal: (29 O. L. 241, 2.) Both these acts took effect on the same day. Our laws require non-resident suitors to procure freehold security for costs before the writ is served: (29 O. L. 59, 69, 130, 187.) Take these provisions together and they would,seem to provide: 1. That foreign administrators or executors may sue in our courts by giving security for costs. 2. That in no case shall they be compelled to give bond to perfect an appeal from one court to another. 3. That, in all cases where they have given bond in this state, they may appeal -without giving an appeal bond. The two last provisions bear directly on the question before us. They are not entirely consistent with each other, and seem to be repugnant. Where administrators have given general security in this state, no appeal bond shall be required, and in ,no case shall they be eompelled to give bond to perfect an appeal. If the design Of the legislature was simply to allow administrators to appeal without bond, the provisions of the first law, the practice act, were abundant. Something else,- then, was in view' in forming the second. The object of the appeal bond is security to the appellee. Citizens and non residents arq prohibited the advantage of an appeal without security,' when .they proceed in their own rights. All administrators appointed in par state, give security for the faithful discharge of their duty. The bonds given by them are controlled by our state authorities. Executors -may, at the option of the probate court, be required to give security. Did not the legislature intend to, rely upon the .general security of these fiduciaries, when given, and require the same security as should be required from individuals, when not given? We incline to that construction of the acts, as the only one according with our general policy, or that will carry out the intention of the legislature. What good reasons can be urged for allowing privileges to foreign administrators, which are denied to our own citizens.

The appeal is quashed.