Case Name: Wofford et al. v. Williams, Sheriff
Court: Mississippi Supreme Court
Jurisdiction: Mississippi
Decision Date: 1915-10
Citations: 109 Miss. 847
Docket Number: 
Parties: Wofford et al. v. Williams, Sheriff.
Judges: 
Reporter: Mississippi Reports
Volume: 109
Pages: 847–848

Head Matter:
Wofford et al. v. Williams, Sheriff.
[69 South. 819.]
Appeal and Error. Appeal bond. Motion to dismiss.
Under Code 1908, section 61, so providing an appeal will not be considered as perfect or a supersedeas awarded thereon, unless the bond required shall have been given and approved; where a motion to dismiss the appeal wherein appellee excepts to the appeal bond and moves to discharge the supersedeas for insufficiency of the bond, such motion will be overruled, on the ground that no appeal has been taken, where the bond is a nullity, because not approved by the clerk of the court below.
Appeal from the chancery court of Calhoun county.
Hon. J. G. McGowen, Chancellor.
Suit by B. Y. Wofford and others against W. T. Williams, sheriff. From a judgment for defendants, plaintiff appeals.
The facts are fitly stated in the opinion of the court.
T. L. Hainan and N. W. Bradford, for the motion.

Opinion:
Smith, C. J.,
delivered the opinion of the court.
This cause comes on to be heard on a motion.wherein appellee—
"excepts to the appeal bond in this cause filed and moves the court to discharge the supersedeas for the following reasons to wit: First, because said bond is insufficient as a security; second, because said bond is without sureties; third, because said bond is signed only by parties to the suit; fourth, because said bond is not approved by the clerk"
Filed with this motion is a certified copy of the decree supposed to have been appealed from, together with a certified copy of an appeal bond. It does not appear that this bond was ever approved by the clerk of the court below; and since it is provided by section 61 of the Code that "an .appeal- shall not be considered as perfect, or a supersedeas awarded thereon, unless the bond required shall have been given and approved," no appeal has as yet been taken herein, so that we have nothing to act upon; the bond as it appears in this record being a nullity.
Overruled.