Case ID: ohio-cc-dec_20/html/0807-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "GIFFEN, J.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

APPEAL.
    [Hamilton (1st) Circuit Court,
    December 21, 1907.]
    Swing, Giffen and Smith, JJ.
    Alexander Meyers v. U. S. Health & Accdt. Ins. Co.
    Appeal Undertaking mat be Approved by Another Justice.
    Jurisdiction on appeal from a judgment by a justice of the peace is conferred by approval of the undertaking by another justice of the same township.
    ERROR to Hamilton common pleas court.
    L. P. Pink, for plaintiff in error.
    Cited and commented upon the following authorities: McGleary v. McLain, 2 Ohio St. 368; McKibben v. Lester, 9 Ohio St. 627; Bowers v. Pomeroy, 21 Ohio St. 184; Pfeifer v. Green, 4 Dec. 239 (3 N. P. 156); Watkins v. Schlecter, 9 Dec. 590 (7 N. P. 42); Norton v. Mc-Leary, 8 Ohio St. 205; Burton Tp. (Tr.) v. Tuttle, 30 Ohio St. 62; 
      Derby y. Heath, 59 Ohio St. 54 [51 N. E. Rep. 547]; Eaton v. Frenchr 23 Ohio St. 560; Harding v. New Haven Tp. (Tr.) 3 Ohio 227; Meyers v. Dwight, 24 O. 0. C. 658 (4 N. S. 431); Capaul v. Railway, 26 0. 0. C. 578 (5 N. S. 262); Collins v. Millen, 57 Ohio St. 289 [48 N. E. Rep. 1097].
    J. T. Harrison, for defendant in error.
    Cited and .commented upon the following authorities: Job v. Harlan, 13 Ohio St. 485; Hubble v. RenieJc, 1 Ohio St. 171; Bushong v. Graham, 2 Circ. Dec. 464' (4 R. 140) ; Jones v. Booth, 38 Ohio St. 405; Cass v. Adams, 3 Ohio 223; Roberts v. Wheeler, Wri. 697; Meyers v. Dwight, 24 O. C. 0. 658 (4 N. S. 431).
   GIFFEN, J.

An undertaking for appeal from a judgment of a justice of .the peace, when approved by a justice of the same township, with the trial justice and at his request, shows a substantial compliance with the provisions of Sec. 6584 Rev. Stat., that the surety “be approved by such justice,” and confers jurisdiction. Job v. Harlan, 13 Ohio St. 485.

Judgment affirmed.

Swing and Smith, JJ., concur.