Opinion ID: 1094461
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Heading Rank: 5

Heading: did the lower court err in only requiring a $6,000.00 supersedeas bond?

Text: Mrs. Alexander seems to be asking this Court to increase the supersedeas bond to the amount on which statutory damages may be awarded by this Court under the authority of Mississippi Code Annotated, § 11-3-23 (Supp. 1985). That section provides that the Supreme Court shall render judgment against an appellant for damages at the rate of fifteen percent (15%) should the case be affirmed. The maximum damages that would have been available to Mrs. Alexander under the pleadings and the ruling of the trial court was $4,000.00 plus interest and a $6,000.00 supersedeas bond set by the chancellor was more than adequate to cover that amount. The issue, however, is mooted by our decision as set out above. There is no merit to this assignment of error. The judgment of back child support of $4,000.00 plus interest is reversed and rendered in favor of the appellant herein. The judgment impressing a lien upon the property of the appellant is reversed to the extent that the lien included $4,000.00 plus interest and remanded to the chancellor for hearing to determine the balance due on the purchase money owed to Mrs. Alexander for which amount the impressment of the lien is affirmed. AFFIRMED IN PART; REVERSED AND RENDERED IN PART; AND REVERSED AND REMANDED IN PART. WALKER, C.J., ROY NOBLE LEE and HAWKINS, P.J., and DAN M. LEE, PRATHER, ROBERTSON, ANDERSON and GRIFFIN, JJ., concur.