Court Opinion

ID: 6505807
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2022-07-19 18:18:03.357013+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T15:54:43.862768
License: Public Domain

WALKEB, J.
Section 8040 of the Code is as follows : “Appeals under this title, except in such cases as a different time is prescribed, must be taken within two years from the rendition of the judgment or decree; but the provisions of this section do not apply to existing judgments or decrees.” The effect of the last clause of this statute is, not to except from the statute of limitations appeals from all judgments or decrees existing when the Code went into force, but only to except appeals from such existing judgments and decrees as might come within the provisions of section 3040, from the operation of the bar of two years provided by that section. The only existing judgments and decrees from which appeals arc *76excepted out of the statute of limitations, are those which come within the provisions of that section.
Is this decree one of those coming within the provisions of section 8040 ? The only judgments and decrees included in that section are those from which appeals are barred in two years. The judgments and decrees, to appeals from which a different period of limitation is prescribed, are excepted from the provisions of the section. Thirty days is the prescribed period within which an appeal must be taken, junder the Code, from such a decree as that sought to be ^qyfsed in this case. — Code, § 1888. It follows, that the (>decyee ip. this case does not come within the provisions o,f vsection.30,4Prf .and therefqre is no.t one of the “judgments or .decrees” existing when the Code went into force, which are ,,excepted from the statute of limitations.
The period necessary .to perfect a bar to a revision of the . decree, under the old law, 'had expired before the Code went .into operation. — Black’s Creditors y. Black’s Administrators, 20 Ala. 401. It is contended, that the repeal by the Code of the law which created that bar, has annihilated it. Upon that question, it is not necessary for us to express any opinion. The appeal in this case was taken after time enough had elapsed to perfect a bar under the Code, and the limitation prescribed in the Code applies, unless it is therein otherwise provided:
The appeal is dismissed, at the Qpsts of the appellant.
.Rice, .C- J-, not sitting.