Case Name: Johnston v. Syme
Court: Court of Appeals of Virginia
Jurisdiction: Virginia
Decision Date: 1790-06
Citations: 3 Call 522
Docket Number: 
Parties: Johnston v. Syme.
Judges: 
Reporter: Virginia Reports
Volume: 7
Pages: 591–592

Head Matter:
Johnston v. Syme.
[June Term, 1790.]
Appeal Bonds — Sureties—Objection. —Not a valid obj ection to a surety to an appeal bond., that he was surety to the injunction bond also.
Appeals — Appeal Bond — Objection—Warver.—In Virginia F. & M. Ins. Co. v. New York, etc., Co., 95 Va. 517, 28 S. E. Rep. 888, it is said : “It is too late to wait, before making sncb motion, (to dismiss tbe appeal) until a new bona cannot be given, or another appeal allowed. To dismiss the appeal at this late day, under these circumstances, would be grossly unjust. The defendant in error, after such delay, must be considered as having waived any objection to the defect in the bond. Following the course which has been heretofore pursued by this court in dealing with similar cases, the motion to dismiss must be overruled. Jackson v. Henderson, 3 Leigh 196 ; Pugh v. Jones, 6 Leigh 299 ; Brown v. Matthews, 1 Rand. 462; Johnston v. Syme, 3 Call 522 ; Acker v. A. & F. R. Co., 84 Va. 648, 5 S. E. Rep. 688, and Orr v. Pennington, 93 Va. 268, 24 S. E. Rep. 928.” The principal case is also cited and. approved in Pugh v. Jones, 6 Leigh 304; Jackson v. Henderson, 3 Leigh 199. See monographic note on “Appeals.”

Opinion:
The plaintiff, in the motion, had obtained a judgment against the defendant at common law; to which judgment the defendant had obtained *an injunction, on giving security for performing the decree of the Court of Chancery: On hearing the bill was dismissed; and from that decree the complainant Syme appealed to this court. The same person, who had been his security, on obtaining the injunction, was his security on the appeal; and now this motion was made for a rule to dismiss the appeal, unless the appellant would give further security; because the security in the appeal bond, having been security to the injunction, was already bound for the debt; and was, therefore, not such additional security, as every appellee was entitled to. But this motion was overruled, the objection being deemed insufficient; and this further rule was entered into, "That objections to securities given upon obtaining writs of supersedeas, writs of error, or appeals, shall hereafter be made to that court, to which the writ, or record shall be returnable, and not afterwards."