Court Opinion

ID: 7153605
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2022-07-24 16:04:12.098702+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T16:15:11.343884
License: Public Domain

Opinion by
Judge Pryor:
In order to prosecute an appeal from the quarterly court to the circuit court the party against whom the judgment is rendered is required to produce to the clerk of the circuit court a certified copy of the judgment, and amount of cost, and caused to be executed before said clerk a bond with one or more sufficient'sureties to the effect that the appellant will satisfy and perform the judgment that shall be rendered on the appeal. When this is done the case is in the circuit court so far as the party appealing is concerned, and nothing more is required of him. in order to entile him to an appeal. That the transcript in this case was produced to the clerk in his office and the bond there executed and delivered to him within sixty days from the judgment is clearly shown by the affidavits of the attorneys and Monarch. The clerk, it seems, neglected to make any indorsement whatever on the papers, but nevertheless, the appellant had done every thing the law required to make his appeal effectual, and the mere fact that the clerk failed to endorse the papers filed, or to issue a supersedeas, or attest the bond, does not preclude the party from his right to prosecute the appeal. If the clerk had been living and on the hearing of the motion to dismiss had made the statement contained in these affidavits, is there any question but what the motion, to dismiss the appeal would have been overruled?
There is no effort to contradict any record of the acts of the deceased clerk, but only to show when these papers were filed. The clerk would be a competent witness for this purpose and as he is dead there is no reason why these affidavits should not be read. The clerk afterwards appointed also swears that he found these papers, transcript and the bond, in the office when he took charge of it, and explains the manner in which the papers were endorsed by himself. This is strongly corroborative of the statements made *148by the attorneys, and we think, made out such a case as clearly entitled the appellant to prosecute his appeal.

Owen & Ellis, for appellant.

J. H. McHenry, for appellee.

The judgment dismissing the appeal is reversed and cause remanded with direction to re-ínstate it, and for further proceedings consistent herewith.