Case Name: Newnan vs. Newnan
Court: Supreme Court of North Carolina
Jurisdiction: North Carolina
Decision Date: 1808-07
Citations: 1 Mur. 178
Docket Number: 
Parties: Newnan vs. Newnan
Judges: 
Reporter: North Carolina Reports
Volume: 5
Pages: 178–179

Head Matter:
Newnan vs. Newnan
—From Rowan.
A. appear bond cutes »i. of the conn, tv court nor win the sustained bond eeuted in •the county court — The courtcaimntlf take a bond to sustain an itppeal,
The plaintiff prayed and appealed from the judgment of County Court of Rowan, hut did not execute an appeal bond l|ot’l after the rise of said court. The transcript of j|)e record was fifed with the clerk of the Superior Court and the defendant’s council moved to dismiss the appeal, » a 7 upon flu* ground that (he appeal bond had not been legally executed ; and the plaintiff moved for leave to execute an aPPCi(J bond in that court. The case was sent to this court upon the question whether an appeal bond, taken after . 1 * 1 the rise of the County Court, is good to sustain the appeal; not> whether the Superior Court can take a bond to sustain it i

Opinion:
Locke —Judge
delivered the opinion of the court.-^-The act of Assembly regulating appeals from the County to the Superior Court, declares, " that all persons dissatisfied wid) the judgment of the County Court, shall be entitled an appeal to the Superior Court •, but before obtaining the saíne shall enter into bond with two sufficient securi ies fbr prosecuting the same with effect." It seems therefore that the County Court have no power or authority to grant an appeal, until they have received from the appellant a bond and adjudged that the security offered is sufficient.— If therefore the party fail, during the sitting of the court, to obtain an appeal by executing a bond according to the provisions of the act, he is precluded forever thereafter from obtaining the same. The court is therefore of opi. nion that this bond being executed after the rising of the County Co the appeal intended to be proseewedihere* on cannot be sustained ; and that the Superior Court have no authority to take a bond to sustain it. The appeal must therefore be dismissed-