Court Opinion

ID: 5550972
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2022-01-11 00:31:34.060385+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T08:35:06.401456
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Per Curiam

Warner, J.
delivering the opinion.
[1.] That the security on the appeal is a necessary party to the writ of error brought to reverse the judgment of the Court below, we have repeatedly determined, and so held in the case of Carey, assignee, &c. vs. Rice, Receiver, &c. during the present term, p. 408; but it does not appear from this record that any appeal bond was ever given, or that any person signed such appeal bond as security.
It is true it is stated in one portion of the record, that an appeal was entered; but whether the party gave security, or entered the appeal by making affidavit under the statute that he was unable to do so, the record does not inform us.
[2.] It is now proposed to introduce evidence aliunde the record certified and sent up to this Court by the clerk of the Court below, for the purpose of showing an appeal bond was given, and who was the security thereto. This cannot be done without violating the reason and spirit of the act organizing this Court, if not the letter of it. The 5th section of the act declares, “ that the Supreme Court'shall proceed at the first term (unless prevented by Providential cause,) to hear and determine, each, and every *441cause which may be sent up from the Court below, upon the record and hill of exceptions, on the grounds therein specified, and on no other grounds.” To open the door for the introduction of evidence aliunde the record, would not only contravene the intention of the legislature, but would produce great delay and embarrassment in the decision of causes in this Court.
If the record is not complete, the party suggesting a diminution thereof, has his remedy under the provisions of the 18th rule of this Court.
The security on the injunction bond is a necessary party to the writ of error to reverse the judgment of the Court below. The security is bound for the eventual condemnation money in the cause, together with all future costs. Prince, 438. He is interested in the judgment which the court may render in the cause. Tidd Practice, 1053, 1054; 6 Comyn Dig. 443, Title Pleader, letter B ; 2 Saund. R. 101, note by Serjeant Williams; Porter vs. Rummery, 10 Mass. R. 74. In Porter vs. Rummery, the Court state the rule to be, that “ Every person to be directly affected in his interests, or rights, by the judgment of a court of record, is entitled to be named or described in the suit, to have notice of it, and an opportunity of being heard and of defending his rights.”
The security on the injunction bond, comes clearly within the principle of a security on the appeal, decided during the present term in the case of Carey, assignee, &c. vs. Rice, Receiver, &c. page 408.
After the judgment of the Court was pronounced, the counsel for the defendant in error, on the application of the plaintiff in error to amend his writ of error, withdrew his objections thereto,, and the cause was heard on its merits.