Case Name: BURGESS v. CRUMPTON
Court: Supreme Court of South Carolina
Jurisdiction: South Carolina
Decision Date: 1913-03-14
Citations: 93 S.C. 562
Docket Number: 8445
Parties: BURGESS v. CRUMPTON.
Judges: 
Reporter: South Carolina Reports
Volume: 93
Pages: 562–563

Head Matter:
8445
BURGESS v. CRUMPTON.
1. Appeal. — If while an appeal is pending-, a motion is mad’e below by appellant to vacate the judgment and grant a new trial on after-discovered evidence, which is granted and the trial results in a judgment for appellant, the appeal cannot be further prosecuted.
2. Ibid. — Costs.—In such case, this Court has no original jurisdiction as to appeal costs.
Action by J. B. Burgess against W. D. Crumpton. Defendant appealed.
Mr. J. R. Barle, for appellant.
Mr. J. W. Shelor, contra.
March 14, 1913.

Opinion:
Per Curiam.
Upon (the call of this case for hearing in this Court, it was made to appear to the Court that'after the appeal had been taken and perfected and the record printed for the hearing of the appeal, and while the appeal was pending in this Court, but before it was heard, the defendant, who- was appellant, made a motion- in the Circuit Court to vacate the judgment appealed from and grant a new trial on the ground of after-discovered evidence; that his motion was granted, and that the new trial was had, and resulted in a judgment for the defendant, from which no appeal has been taken. It necessarily follows that this appeal -cannot -be further prosecuted.
Appellant's attorney asked that the Court provide in its order dismissing the appeal that he be allowed the necessary disbursements of .the appeal, but the Court cannot make such am order, because it has no- original jurisdiction of the matter. This Court can only review the orders of the Circuit .Counts- with regard to the taxation -of the costs and disbursements incident to- appeals. Bradley v. Rodelsperger, 6 S. C. 290; Huff v. Watkins, 20 S. C. 477; Dilling v. Foster, 21 S. C. 334; Cooke v. Poole, 26 S. C. 321, 2 S. E. 609; Hecht v. Freisleben, 28 S. C. 181, 5 S. E. 475.
The appeal is, therefore, dismissed, without prejudice and without any intimation of opinion as to the rights of either party with regard to the costs and disbursements of the appeal.