Court Opinion

ID: 9824831
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-09-01 11:31:55.844386+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T07:40:09.577613
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ON REHEARING.
(2) On application for rehearing it is urged that the appeal in this case was taken within the time prescribed by law, in that section 2868 of Code 1907 was amended by act of Special Session 1909, p. 165, which said act makes the time for appealing one year from the rendition of the judgment or decree; and it is insisted that this act was in force on the 21st of September, 1915, the day upon which the judgment in favor of the appellee and against the appellant was obtained. The appeal was taken on the 20th day of September, 1916. It is true that the statute in force at the time the judgment was rendered allowed one year from the rendition of the judgment within which an appeal might be taken, and this fact was duly noted and considered by this court in passing upon the motions on appeal in this case; but *641this statute was repealed by Acts 1915, p. 711, which became effective September 22, 1915, and the later statute provides that appeals must be taken within six months. It will be observed that there is no saving clause expressed in the statute (Acts 1915, p. 711) in respect to judgments in existence at the time this statute took effect. The appeal in this case was not taken until one year, lacking one day, after the statute of 1915 was in effect, and therefore we must adhere to the opinion in this cáse; and under authority of Theo. Poull & Co. v. Foy-Hays Construction Co., 159 Ala. 453, 48 South. 785, the application for rehearing is overruled.
Application overruled.