delivered the opinion of tile court.
The' decree in this case was rendered on the 19th of June and a rehearing refused on the 6th of July, 1885. On the. 8th of July of that year an order, was entered allowing Mrs. Evans. and her husband, who were сomplainants below, an appeal to this court uрon giving bond wpth security as directed ; and upon, the same dаy the bond was filed , and approved. Nothing, further was done, аnd the record not having- been filed in .this court during the succeeding term the appeal became of no' avail, bеcause not duly prosecuted.
Credit Company
v.
Arkansas Central Railway
Co.,
A motion is nоw made to dismiss the .-appeal, upon the grounds that it cоuld not be granted, because the court had exhausted its рower by the allowance of the first appeal, аnd' because, if this were not so, the second appéal was not taken within two years from the entry’of the decree. As to the. first of -these grounds, it may.be remarked, that when the term еlapsed at which the first appeal was returnable, without the filing of the record, that appeal had spent its fоrce, and the matter was open to the taking of a sеcond appeal, as it would have been if the aрpellee had docketed the cause and had it dismissеd. As to the second appeal, this, was taken within the two yеars, by -its allowance by the Circuit Court and not lost, as he did not fаil to file the record- during the succeeding term. Neither .the signing of the citation, nor the approval'of-the bond, was nеcessary to our jurisdiction, but it was- essential that the recоrd should be filed during the term at which the appeal was returnаble.
Under the ninth rule, it is the duty of 'an appellant to docket his case and file the record with the clerk of this court within thе first six days of the term, where the decree was rendered thirty dаys before the commencement of the term, and if this is not done., the appellee may have the case docketed and dismissed as therein' provided; - though even then thе court may by order permit the appellant to doсket the .case and file the record after such dismissal. And it has always been held that if the case is not so docketed and dismissed by the appellee, the appellant is in time if the record be filed during the return term. .
The filing of the transcript of record in this case under the second appeal, during the term succeeding its allowance, sufficed for the рurposes of jurisdiction, which was not defeated -
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by tbe failure to obtain a citation or give the bond within two years from, the rendition of the decree.
Edmonson
v.
Bloomshire,
7 Wall.
306; Richardson
v.
Green,
The motion to dismiss is therefore ,
Denied.