Case Name: William Kirk, plaintiff in error, vs. Andrew J. Armstrong, defendant in error
Court: Superior Court of the Territory of Arkansas
Jurisdiction: Arkansas
Decision Date: 1835-07
Citations: 1 Ark. Terr. Rep. 283
Docket Number: 
Parties: William Kirk, plaintiff in error, vs. Andrew J. Armstrong, defendant in error.
Judges: 
Reporter: Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the United States Superior Court for the Territory of Arkansas, from 1820 to 1836
Volume: 1
Pages: 283–283

Head Matter:
William Kirk, plaintiff in error, vs. Andrew J. Armstrong, defendant in error.
Appeal from a justice not taken on tlie day of trial, ten days’ notice before tlie sitting of the next court authorized to try the same, must be given to the opposite party.
July, 1835.
— Error to Hempstead Circuit Court, determined before Benjamin Johnson and Archibald Yell, judges.

Opinion:
Opinion oe the Court. — On the 5th of April, 1834, William Kirk obtained a judgment before a justice of the peace against Andrew J. Armstrong, for twenty dollars damages and costs of suit, from which judgment Armstrong prayed an appeal to the Hempstead circuit court, on the 3d day of May, 1834. Armstrong failed to notify Kirk that he had taken an appeal. At the next term of the Hempstead circuit court, Kirk failed to appear, and his suit, on the motion of Armstrong, was dismissed with costs. To this judgment this writ of error is prosecuted.
When an appeal is not prayed for on the day of trial, the party appealing is required by law to notify the opposite party, at least ten days before the next sitting of the court authorized to try the same. This not having been done, it was clearly erroneous to dismiss the suit. Geyer's Dig. 391.
Judgment reversed.