Case Name: The Trustees of the Leake and Watts Orphan House in the City of New-York v. Augustine N. Lawrence et al. ex'rs, &c.
Court: Saratoga Chancery Court
Jurisdiction: New York
Decision Date: 1844-05-07
Citations: 4 Sarat. Ch. Sent. 21
Docket Number: 
Parties: The Trustees of the Leake and Watts Orphan House in the City of New-York v. Augustine N. Lawrence et al. ex’rs, &c.
Judges: 
Reporter: Saratoga Chancery Sentinel
Volume: 4
Pages: 21–21

Head Matter:
The Trustees of the Leake and Watts Orphan House in the City of New-York v. Augustine N. Lawrence et al. ex’rs, &c.
iE. H. Owen, for appellant; D. S. Jones, for respondents.
Power of .yice chancellorto dispense wjtji sureties.,,o# appeal,

Opinion:
Decided that a vice chancellar has .no power to dispense with . , . 1 * ,-a justification of ¿ne sureties ,*n an .appeal bond, or to stay the ¡proceedings under the decree appealed from, upon any other rterms than those which are ¡prescribed by the rules of the •court on the subject; — those rules (¡the 116th and 172d) being made by virtue.ef the statute authorizing the chancellor •to prescribe in what cases, to what extent, and upon what ¡terms orders or decrees of ¡the vice chancellors shall be suspended or affected by appeal. (2 R. S. 178, § 61, 67.)
Order appealed from reversed, but without costs.