Court Opinion

ID: 3648089
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2016-07-06 06:03:38.564841+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T14:28:47.156539
License: Public Domain

The action had been commenced by a writ in debt issued returnable to Spring Term 1867; and, and at the late term, the plaintiff  recovered judgment. The transcript sent up to to this Court, after stating the proceedings up to and including judgment, added--"with which judgment the defendants being dissatisfied pray an appeal to the Supreme Court, to be held at Raleigh, and it is allowed upon  their giving bond according to law with c., as sureties. Said bond is duly executed and is herewith sent."
This is a motion by an appellee to dismiss the appeal for want of notice. Section 301 Cow. C. P., requires a notice of the appeal to be given: the manner of serving notices is prescribed elsewhere in the Code. The judge below has nothing to do with the granting of an appeal; it is the act of the appellant alone. On his docketing his appeal and giving the required undertakings, it is the duty of the Clerk to send it up. Hence there is no presumption of regularity, such as would exist in the case of a judgment rendered by a Judge; nor can notice be presumed merely because the appeal was taken during a term of the Court. See General Rule adopted at this term. The motion is allowed, and the appeal is dismissed with costs.
PER CURIAM.                                    Appeal dismissed.