Court Opinion

ID: 9582995
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-21 22:33:47.75654+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T13:36:43.019130
License: Public Domain

Felton, C. J.,
dissenting. Code § 6-101 provides for appeal in cases tried by a county judge or a justice of the peace. Code § 6-105 provides: “The appellant (except as hereinafter provided) shall, previously to obtaining such appeal, pay all costs which may have accrued in the case up to the time of entering such appeal, and give bond and security for the eventual condemnation money.” Code § 6-105 was lifted from the Act of 1799, Cobb, 494, which act provides only for appeals from jury verdicts. If we construe Code § 6-105 as meaning;what the words meant in the Act of 1799, the section would not apply to appeals provided for in § 6-101. If we construe Code § 6-105 as the enactment of a new law by its codification and its particular place in the Code, it can only be interpreted to refer to appeals mentioned in Code § 6-101, giving effect to the use of the word “such” in Code § 6-105. It was not necessary for the General Assembly in 1953 to provide within what time the appeal had to be taken or . how to perfect it or to provide a bond as a prerequisite. Code § 6-102 is a section which applies to all appeals of every description where the time therefor has.not been *641specifically otherwise provided by law. Code § 6-105 is sufficient provision for the procedural requirements in appeals such as we have here. My conclusion is that the Act-of 1953 is a valid provision for the appeal therein dealt with without the necessity of filing a condemnation money bond, and that there is no provision in Chapter 6-1 of the Code which provides generally for condemnation money bonds as a prerequisite to an appeal.

Townsend, J., concurs in the foregoing dissent.