32 Fla. 425 | Fla. | 1893
Appellee has made a motion to vacate the superse-deas in this cause. The grounds of the motion are that. the appeal is frivolous; no order has been obtained from any Justice of this court for a supersedeas; and no bond has been filed by appellants pursuant to an order of the Circuit or Supreme Court for a superse-deas.
Upon an examination of . the record before us we find no supersedeas in the case to vacate. The record shows that appellee filed a bill against appellants and the sheriff of Alachua county to enjoin the sale under attachment proceedings of $1000.00 worth of personal property included in a stock of goods on the ground that so much of said goods was exempt by the Consti•tution to appellee as the head of a family residing in this State. A temporary injunction was granted by a court commissioner, and on motion to dissolve before-the Chancellor the injunction was continued on condition t-hat appellee as complainant below execute an injunction bond in the sum of five hundred dollars. This, bond, it seems, was not executed, and the entire stock of goods was sold as perishable property under the attachment proceedings and the proceeds paid into the registry, of the court to await the termination of the attachment suit. The bill was dismissed as to the sheriff and by leave of the court appellee filed an amended and supplemental bill against appellants, repeating 'therein the allegations of the original bill that appellee was the head of a family residing in this State and as. such entitled to the exemptions provided for in the Constitution, and further alleging that since filing the original bill the personal property claimed as exempt.
There were demurrers and exceptions filed and rulings thereon,' but it is not necessary to refer to them here.
After a joinder of issue testimony was taken, and upon final hearing the Circuit Judge decided that ap-pellee was entitled to $1000.00 as his constitutional exemption out of the funds in the registry of the court arising from the sale of the stock of goods, and that the clerk as register of the court pay over at once to appellee or his solicitors of record the sum of $1000.00 and take receipt for same.
" An appeal was entered by appellants from this decree, and within thirty days from the rendition of the «ame they filed a bond in the sum of $1500.00 payable to appellee reciting the eutry of the appeal, and conditioned upon the payment of $1000.00 and interest thereon to appellee and the discharge of the costs of suit if the decree appealed from should be affirmed by this court. This bond is approved by the Circuit •Clerk.
The appeal here is from a final decree and the motion to vacate is based upon the theory that the filing ■of the bond within thirty days from the entry of, the decree operates as a. supersedeas. Section 1458 Revised Statutes provides that no appeal from a final decree shall operate as a supersedeas unless taken within the time fixed by law for taking a writ of error “operating, as of course as a supersedeas” and bond and
In this case no money decree was rendered agaiirjs appellants and there is no order from any proper judge allowing a supersedeas. The decree appealed from in •effect adjudicates a homestead exemption as to personal property in favor of a debtor, the head of a family residing in this State, and sets apart to him $3000.00 arising from the sale of his personal property. The money was in the registry of the court and while the decree affects the rights of appellants it is not a money ■decree against them. The motion must be denied.
At the hearing, of the foregoing motion to vacate the supposed supersedeas appellants applied for an -order that their appeal taken in this case operate as a supersedeas to the decree appealed from, and upon an inspection of the record it is ordered that said appeal ■shall operate as a supersedeas upon appellants entering; into bond in such an amount and conditioned as may be determined by the Judge in the Circuit Court ■Court of the Fifth Judicial Circuit, and approved in the manner required by the statute.