Opinion ID: 1729986
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Heading: on motion of appellant for stay, and motion of appellee to issue mandate

Text: The appellant, Dorothy E. Bridges, gave notice of appeal to the Supreme Court of the United States pursuant to Rule 10 of the Revised Rules of the Supreme Court of the United States, and filed a bond in the penal sum of $500 binding the obligors to promptly pay and satisfy all costs and damages that may accrue against the appellants. Appellant has also filed a motion for a stay of the mandate of this Court and for the approval by this Court of the appeal bond. Appellant contends that the $500 cost bond operates as a supersedeas so as to stay the issuance of the mandate to the chancery court. In other words, appellant contends that under Mississippi Code Annotated section 3374-14 (1956), a $500 cost bond operates as a supersedeas under the authority of Dodd v. City of Jackson, 238 Miss. 372, 118 So.2d 319 (1960). Mississippi Code Annotated section 3374-14 (1956) is as follows: If the municipality or any other interested person who was a party to the proceedings in the chancery court be aggrieved by the decree of the chancellor, then such municipality or other person may prosecute an appeal therefrom within the time and in the manner and with like effect as is provided above in the case of appeals from the decree of the chancellor with regard to the creation of a municipal corporation. The statute governing appeals from the decree of the chancellor with regard to the creation of a municipal corporation is Mississippi Code Annotated section 3374-08 (1956), which is as follows: Any person interested in or aggrieved by the decree of the chancellor, and who was a party to the proceedings in the chancery court, may prosecute an appeal therefrom to the supreme court within ten (10) days from the date of such decree by furnishing an appeal bond in the sum of five hundred dollars ($500.00) with two good and sufficient sureties, conditioned to pay all costs of the appeal in event the decree is affirmed. Such appeal bond shall be subject to the approval of the chancery clerk and shall operate as a supersedeas. If the decree of the chancellor be affirmed by the supreme court, then such decree shall go into effect after the passage of ten (10) days from the date of the final judgment thereon, and the party or parties prosecuting such appeal and the sureties on their appeal bond shall be adjudged to pay all costs of such appeal. The two code sections govern appeals to this Court from decrees of the chancery court in proceedings to enlarge, extend, modify and define the corporate limits of a city, and provide that a $500 bond shall operate as a supersedeas. This statute does not concern appeals from the Supreme Court of Mississippi to the Supreme Court of the United States. The matter of supersedeas on appeal to the Supreme Court of the United States is governed by Rule 18, Revised Rules of the Supreme Court of the United States. It provides that whenever an appellant entitled thereto desires a stay on appeal, he may present to a judge of the court whose decision is sought to be reviewed a motion to stay the enforcement of the judgment, with which, if the stay is to act as a supersedeas, shall be tendered a supersedeas bond. No supersedeas bond has been tendered. The ordinance extending the city limits of Biloxi became effective on May 3, 1962, and this Court rendered its opinion affirming the chancellor's decree approving said ordinance on October 11, 1965. Under the provisions of Mississippi Code Annotated section 3374-13 (1956), the decree of the chancellor in such matters becomes effective, in event an appeal is taken from his decree to this Court, within ten days from the date of the final determination of the appeal by this Court. The suggestion of error filed by appellant was overruled on October 25, 1965. Therefore, this Court has finally determined the appeal and the decree of the chancellor approving the ordinance has become final. Only a supersedeas granted by a Judge of this Court, or by the Court itself, or by a Judge of the Supreme Court of the United States could stay the issuance of the mandate of this Court to the Chancery Court of Harrison County. We hold that the $500 cost bond and the notice of appeal to the Supreme Court of the United States does not operate as a supersedeas. No supersedeas bond has been tendered and the motion for the stay of mandate is overruled. The motion of the City of Biloxi to direct the clerk to prepare and deliver the mandate of this Court to the Clerk of the Chancery Court of Harrison County, Mississippi, is sustained. Motion for stay overruled; motion to issue mandate to the trial court sustained. Lee, C.J., and Jones, Brady and Inzer, JJ., concur.