Case ID: miss_3/html/0884-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "Per Curiam:", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Devane v. Calching.
    Where a cause is brought up on error, it will be dismissed if there is no writ of error in the record.
    A writ of error and an appeal are the only means by which causes can be brought to the high court of errors and appeals.
    MOTION to dismiss for want of a writ of error.
    Topp, for the motion.
    Marsh, contra.
    
   Per Curiam:

A motion is made to dismiss the case. And without resorting to the reasons assigned in support of the motion we think the case must be dismissed for one very obvious reason. There is no writ of error, nor is there anything to show that one has been issued. Without it, we cannot have jurisdiction of the case. However unnecessary the writ of error may appear to be, from the particular provisions of our statute law, yet it is nowhere dispensed with, and we have not the power of modifying the law. All that is filed with the record, is a citation, and it recites, that a writ of error had been prayed for, but we have no evidence that it has ever issued or was granted. A writ of error and an appeal are the only means by which a cause can be brought into this court, and we have no right to entertain jurisdiction, without one or the other.

The motion to dismiss must be sustained.