Case Name: Bank of Circleville v. Bowsher
Court: Ohio Circuit Court
Jurisdiction: Ohio
Decision Date: 1897-10
Citations: 8 Ohio Cir. Dec. 514
Docket Number: 
Parties: Bank of Circleville v. Bowsher.
Judges: Shearer, C. J., Summers and Wilson, JJ.
Reporter: Ohio Circuit Decisions
Volume: 8
Pages: 514–516

Head Matter:
APPEAL.
[Franklin Circuit Court,
October Term, 1897.]
Shearer, C. J., Summers and Wilson, JJ.
Bank of Circleville v. Bowsher.
1. The Judge’s Docket is no Part of the Records of the Court.
The Judge’s docket is no part of the records of the court, and notice of appeal entered upon such docket is not sufficient,
2, On Appeal to Circuit Court, Failure to Give Notice within Three Days Cannot be Cured by Nunc Pro Tunc Order.
A party desiring to appeal his cause to the circuit court must, within three days after the judgment or order is entered, enter on the records notice of such intention, and an omission to do so cannot be cured by a nunc pro tunc order.
Error to the Court of Common Pleas of Franklin county.
Motion to dismiss appeal.
See Sayer, Guardian, v. Schaber, Adm’r, 57 O. S., 234, for decision of the Supreme Court upon this question.

Opinion:
Summers, J.
The ground of the motion is that notice of intention to appeal was not entered on the records within three days after the entering of the judgment.
Judgment was entered on April 27.
The judgment entry which was filed on that day, contained no notice of defendant's intention to appeal; but, after three days had intervened, notice of defendant's intention to appeal was added to this entry. This addition was made without the consent of plaintiff's counsel, and on May 12, at the same term, on their motion, this notice was ordered stricken from the entry and record, and was so done, without exception by the defendants.
Meanwhile, on May 8, the following entry was made upon the records:
"April Term, May 8, 1897. And now comes the defendants herein, Ferdinand Bowsher and Ella Bowsher, and give notice of their intentions to appeal this action to the circuit court, and the court fixes the appeal bond at two hundred and fifty dollars. And it appearing to the court that said notice was given within three days from the entry of rndgment, the court orders that this entry be made as of the date of the entry of judgment. To which the plaintiff takes exception."
The defendants gave an undertaking in the amount fixed by the court and within the time prescribed, and filed a transcript and the original papers and pleadings with the clerk of this court.
Counsel for defendants say that at the time the judgment was rendered, the trial judge made a 'memorandum upon his docket of notice of defendants' intention to appeal, and of the amount of the appeal bond. But the question here is to be determined by the record," and, the notice of appeal having been stricken out of the entry of April 27, and from the records, without objection by defendants, the record stands as if no notice had been entered except that in the nunc pro tunc order of May 8, and the question is whether an omission to enter upon the records, within three days after the judgment or order is entered, notice of intention to appeal, can be cured by a nunc pro tunc order ?
The right of appeal rests solely upon statutory provisions, and unless those provisions have been complied with, this court does not by the appeal acquire jurisdiction of the subject-matter.
Section 5227, Revised Statutes provides that:
"A party desiring to appeal his cause to the circuit court shall, within three days after the judgment or order is entered, enter on the records notice of such intention, and within thirty days after the entering of such judgment or order upon the journal of the court, give an undertaking with sufficient surety, to be approved by the clerk of the court or a iudge thereof, as hereinafter provided."
The statute does not provide that notice shall be given to the court or to the opposite party, but requires notice of the intention to appeal to be entered on the records within three days after the judgment or order is entered. The object is to give notice, not merely to the opposite party, but to every one whose interest it may be to know. The duty and power of the court in respect to the matter of the appeal is limited to fixing the amount of the bond and deciding to which party it shall be made payable.
If the statute merely required notice of appeal to be given, and notice was given, then the court might, by a nunc pro tunc order, supply record evidence of that fact; but it is the office of a nunc pro tunc order to supply record evidence of what was previously done, and not at a subsequent time to do, as of a previous time, something which never was done. Cleveland Leader v. Green, 52 O. S., 487.
In Moore v. Brown, 10 O., 197, it is held that:.
C. J. Delaplane and F. C. Hubbard, for the motion.
Gale & Clarke, contra.
" A notice of appeal marked by the court on its docket, but not carried into the journals, is not a compliance with the statute requiring such notice to be entered on the record; nor can the omission be cured by a nunc pro tunc order at a subsequent term."
This decision is disapproved by Bartley, J., in Hubble v. Renick, 1 O. S., 171, 172, but the question was not involved in the decision of that case, and Moore v. Brown, supra, has not been overruled, and is decisive of the question here presented. The statute under consideration in Moore v. Brown, supra, is found in Swan, 1841, page 682, section 124, and required the party desiring to appeal to enter on the records notice of his intention at the term at which the judgment or decree was rendered. The law now requires the notice to be entered within three days after the entering of the judgment or order, and so far as this question is concerned, that is the only difference.
" When the time for taking an appeal has expired, it cannot be .-arrested or called back by a simple order of court, such as entering an «order nunc pro tunc."
Credit Co. v. Ark. Cent. Ry., 128, U. S., 258.
Motion sustained, appeal dismissed.