Case ID: mo_83/html/0193-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "Norton, J.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

The State ex rel. Wooldridge, Appellant, v. Keuchler et al.
    
    Appeal: ‘ affidavit for, when must be filed. An affidavit for an appeal from a judgment of the circuit court must be made in term ; if made in vacation the appeal will be dismissed.
    
      Appeal from Chariton Circuit Court — Hon. G. D. Burgess, Judge.
    Appeal dismissed.
    
      Smith & Krauthoff for appellant.
    The appeal should not be dismissed. The statutory requirement that an affidavit for an appeal should be filed at the term at which the appeal is taken may be waived by the respondent. Jacobs v. Morange, 1 Daly 523, 527. The statute governing the filing of bills of exceptions requires them to be filed at the term at which the same are taken “and not after! R. S., sec. 3636. But parties can, by consent, extend the time beyond the term. The same ruling should apply to perfecting an appeal. Pomeroy v. Selmes, 8 Mo. 727; Blankenship v. R. R., 48 Mo. 376; Henze v. R. R., 71 Mo. 634; West v. Fowler, 55 Mo. 300; S. C., 59 Mo. 40. Besides the action of the respondents in filing an abstract and a brief upon the merits is a waiver of the point that the affidavit was not filed in. term. Pearson v. Lovejoy, 53 Barb. 407; Stover v. Ins. Co., 9 Abb. Pr. 23 and 27.
    
      A. W. Mullins with Chas. Hammond for respondents.
    The circuit court had no power to grant leave to the plaintiff to file an affidavit for the appeal in vacation after the adjournment of the court, nor to allow an appeal without the affidavit was first filed. R. S., sec. 3712; Randolph v. Mauck, 68 Mo. 468; State ex rel. Partridge v. Lewis, 71 Mo. 170; Staveley v. Kunkel, 27 Mo. 422; Pershing v. Canfield, 70 Mo. 140.
   Norton, J.

It is provided in section 3712, Rev. Stat., that no appeal shall be allowed, unless: First, it be made during the term at which the judgment or decision appealed from was rendered; and, second, the appellant or his agent shall, during the same term, file in the court his affidavit stating that such appeal is not made for vexation or delay, but because the affiant believes that the appellant is aggrieved by the judgment or decision of the court.

The record in this case shows that no affidavit for appeal -was filed during the term at which the judgment was 'rendered, but the affidavit was filed in vacation before the clerk, and the appeal granted was conditioned on suck filing. In this state of tke record, tke following authorities justify tke dismissal of tke appeal as requested by respondent, and it is hereby dismissed. Lengle v. Smith, 48 Mo. 276; State ex rel. Partridge v. Lewis, 71 Mo. 170; Clelland & Co. v. Shaw, 51 Mo. 440; Stavely v. Kunkel, 27 Mo. 422.

All concur.