Court Opinion

ID: 5168299
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2022-01-02 04:50:30.059422+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T08:25:57.832390
License: Public Domain

SULLIVAN, J.
This is an appeal from an order of the district court of Bannock county dismissing an appeal from the probate court of said county, and from the judgment of dismissal. The facts are as follows, as disclosed by the transcript: Judgment was made and entered against the appellant, Reed, by the probate court of Bannock county, and thereafter an appeal was taken to the district court of said county. The appellant filed his undertaking- on appeal on November 9, 1895, and on the thirteenth day of said month the plaintiffs, by their attorney, duly filed exceptions to the sufficiency of defendant's sureties to said undertaking. No notice of the filing of said exceptions was served on appellant or his attorney. On the eighteenth day of November the case came on for trial in the •district court, and counsel for respondents was then notified in open court that said sureties had been excepted to. Thereafter, and on the nineteenth day of November, the cause came on to be heard on the motion to dismiss the appeal, whereupon counsel for respondents consented to give appellant two days’ time for the sureties to appear and justify; and on the twenty-first day of November, the sureties having failed to appear and justify, the appellant asked for further time in which to file *62tin undertaking, and the court granted said request, and extended the time to November 23d, whereupon, on the 23d of November, no undertaking having been filed, the cause came on for hearing on motion to dismiss the appeal, and, 'after-hearing the argument of counsel, and as the record recites,, the court, being fully advised in the premises, ordered the appeal dismissed. The contention of appellant is that he was, entitled to notice of the filing of exceptions to the sufficiency of the sureties, and that such notice was not served on him.
Under the provisions of section 4842 of the Eevised Statutes, the adverse party may except to the sufficiency of the sureties on an undertaking on appeal. Said section does not, in-terms, require notice of the filing of such exception to be served on the appellant or his attorney. But professional courtesy and the better practice require such notice to be-served. However, in this case the time for the sureties to-justify or for the filing of another undertaking was extended from the 18th of November to the 23d of that month, with full notice to appellant’s counsel; and the record shows that they failed to appear and justify, and respondents failed to offer a. new undertaking. Under that state of facts, the court did not err in dismissing said appeal. The judgment of the court below is sustained. Costs of this appeal awarded to respondenU
Morgan, C. J., and Huston, J., concur.