Opinion ID: 2604305
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Heading: the trial court's order refusing to exonerate the bail bond is an appealable order.

Text: The state asserts that the order of the trial court denying Bail Bond's motion to exonerate the bond is not an appealable order under the our appellate rules. We disagree. This question is easily resolved by reference to State v. Fedder, 76 Idaho 535, 285 P.2d 802 (1955). In Fedder, in considering the question of the forfeiture of a bail bond, the Court said: The acts of the trial court in forfeiting the undertaking and in refusing, upon application, to discharge such forfeiture except upon terms, resulted in a final order or judgment from which an appeal would lie. Id. at 542, 285 P.2d at 806. In Fedder, the Court referred to I.C. § 13-201 as authority for this proposition. In 1955, I.C. § 13-201 prescribed what decisions of a district court in a civil action could be appealed to this Court. In 1977, the statute was amended to provide that orders and judgments in civil actions are appealable as prescribed by rule of this Court. The trial court's order denying exoneration of the bond in this case was a final order in a civil action within the scope of I.A.R. 11(a)(1). Although in its notice of appeal, Bail Bond asserted the appealability of the order under I.A.R. 11(a)(2), this incorrect reference is not fatal to the appeal. I.A.R. 21 (filing a notice of appeal within the time prescribed is the only jurisdictional requirement).