Court Opinion

ID: 9824993
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-09-01 11:52:00.347921+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T07:40:19.065803
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On Rehearing.
 Appellant seeks a rehearing that she may now be permitted to give security for costs of appeal, and she cites in support of this claim Coleman v. Smith, 52 Ala. 259; Cahalan v. Monroe, 65 Ala. 254; Guy v. Lee, 80 Ala. 346. We note in those cases that this -court, in holding that a married woman could not appeal without giving security for the costs, made an order allowing her time in which to do so. When those cases were decided, the time for perfecting an appeal was controlled by the Rev. Code of 1867, or Code 1876, sections 3508, 3949, respectively. They allowed an appeal from a final judgment within two years. It was changed to one year in the Code of 1886 (section 3619), and it was the same in the Code of 1896 (section 436), but was changed to six months in the Code of 1907 (section 2868), and now so remains (section 6127, Code 1923). An examination for the original records of the cases cited failed to locate them, but they doubtless show that the term fixed by the court within which appellant was allowed to execute an appeal bond, when she had made no previous attempt to do so, was within the time in which she then had the right to take an appeal. And, having the right then to take an appeal, the privilege of doing so was granted without the necessity of making another transcript. Section 6101, Code, provides the manner of taking an appeal, and section 6127, the time in which it must be done, and, unless taken in such time and manner as there provided, it is not taken at all. Peters v. Schuessler, 208 Ala. 627, 95 So. 26, 27; Snider v. Funderburk, 209 Ala. 663, 96 So. 928; Burgin v. Sugg, 210 Ala. 142, 97 So. 216.
The case of Peters v. Schuessler, supra, is of a similar nature to this one. The court held that a married woman should have given security for costs within the time fixed by law, and that “this was not done and the time has elapsed,” and therefore the appeal was dismissed without extending the opportunity then to do so. A similar order was made in the case of Holley v. Harris, 220 Ala. 417, 125 So. 660.
We cannot therefore grant appellant the privilege of executing a bond, for the time has elapsed and the right does not now exist. Rehearing denied.
• ANDERSON, C. J., and GARDNER and BOULDIN, JJ., concur.