Court Opinion

ID: 9808307
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-31 20:33:28.586001+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T12:10:51.668237
License: Public Domain

Davis, J.,
(dissenting). I cannot concur in the refusal to grant the writ of certiorari. Accepting the construction placed by this Court upon chapter 121 of the Acts of 1887 as settled by the decision in this case at the last term, and without •questioning that decision, I think the affidavits and the record made a part of the affidavit of the defendant disclose ■facts which entitle the defendant to the writ.
*131It appears from the record that the security offered when the appeal was taken was accepted as sufficient, the bond was executed before the appeal was sent up, so no harm came or could have come to the appellee by reason of the fact that it was not executed within the time named; for it was not a bond to stay execution, and that could have been issued as well after as before the execution of the bond for costs.
If the merits are with the-plaintiff, he is protected and can lose nothing by the trial; but if with the defendant, as she alleges, then she suffers loss without remedy, by a failure to comply, technically, with the letter of a statute strictly construed, which, I think, was intended to secure the trial of causes upon their merits, and which should therefore be liberally construed.