Court Opinion

ID: 5183076
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2022-01-06 04:44:42.059971+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T08:26:38.680773
License: Public Domain

Per Curiam:
We are of the opinion that the notices of appeal served in this action could properly be amended in the manner directed by the County Court. But the amendment which inserts in the undertaking the sum. of $417 as the amount for which the surety may be held liable is evidently unauthorized. Such an order can have no force as against the surety, and the undertaking, when so amended, is not the contract of the surety. Therefore, no such undertaking as the statute requires to make the appeal effectual has as yet been filed. (See § 3069 and § 3050 of the Code.) But, under the provisions of section 3049, the County Court had authority to allow the defendant to give a new and sufficient undertaking, and when the notices of appeal were so amended, and such new undertaking should be given, the appeal would be complete. The evident purpose of the County Court was to allow such amendments as would perfect the appeal, and it was a case wherein it had the power to do so, had it adopted the correct method as to supplying the defect caused by the insufficient undertaking.
We conclude, therefore, to modify the orders appealed from as follows:
The order as to the amendment is affirmed so far as it provides for the amendment of the notices of appeal, and modified as to the provision for amending the undertaking by striking out the same, and providing in lieu thereof that the defendant be allowed to give a new undertaking in the manner and form required by law, within twenty days after service of a copy of this order, and upon payment of ten dollars costs of motion in the court below, and ten dollars and disbursements, as costs of this appeal.
BTo. 1. As to the order denying the motion to dismiss the appeal, the same is reversed and the motion in the court below granted, unless, within the time herein provided, the undertaking allowed *222by the order made by this court in the appeal from the order allowing the amendment be given by the defendant. In the event that such an undertaking is so given,'then the order appealed from is affirmed. No costs are allowed to either party upon this appeal.
All concurred.
So ordered.