Case ID: nd_49/html/0124-01.html
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Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

A. STONEHOUSE and E. Stonehouse, Copartners, Respondents, v. GEORGE SMITH, Appellant.
    (190 N. W. 314.)
    Justices of the peace — service of undertaking with notice of appeal to district court jurisdictional.
    Following Richardson v. Campbell, 9 N. D. 100, it is a jurisdictional prerequisite in appeals from justice’s court that the undertaking be served with the notice of appeal.
    Opinion filed October 16, 1922.
    Justices of the Peace, 35 C. J. § 449 p. 762 n. 13.
    Note. — On necessity of filing undertaking with notice of appeal in justice’s court, see 16 R. C. L. 404; 3 R. C. L. Supp. 565.
    Action in District Court, Grand Forks County, Fnglert, J.
    
      Defendant has appealed from a judgment dismissing an appeal from the Justice’s Court.
    Affirmed.
    
      P. A. McClernan, for appellant.
    
      J. A. Walsh> for respondents.
   Bronson, J.

This is an appeal from a judgment dismissing an appeal from the justice’s court. Upon a trial had in the justice’s court judgment was rendered for the plaintiffs. Defendant appealed, but did not serve his undertaking upon plaintiffs or their attorney. For such failure the trial court dismissed the appeal. Defendant requests a construction of §§ 9163, 9165, and 9169, Comp. Laws. 1913, and their application to a litigant not in default. These sections were, respectively, §§ 6771, 6772, and 6776, Revised Codes 1895, forming a part of chapter 6, Justice’s Code, relating to appeals in civil actions. Section 6776 provides: “The undertaking given on appeal and appellant’s pleading, if the judgment appealed from was taken by default, must be served with a notice of appeal.” This section was amended by chap. 6, Laws of 1897, so as to read “The undertaking for appeal must be served with the notice; also appellant’s pleading when the judgment appealed from was taken by default.” Plainly, the statutory provision requires that the undertaking for appeal must be served in all cases with the notice. It is a jurisdictional prerequisite. This court has expressly so held in Richardson v. Campbell, 9 N. D. 100, 81 N. W. 31.

The judgment is affirmed with costs.

Bibdzell, Ch. J., and CheistiaNsoN, Geace, and RobiksoN, JJ., concur.