48 W. Va. 267 | W. Va. | 1900
This is a writ of error from a judgment of the circuit court of Tyler County dismissing an appeal granted the defendants A. J. Yoke and M. C. Hagans from a judgment of a justice against them in favor of J. D. Holmes for the sum of one hundred and forty-two dollars.
The plaintiff moved the circuit court to dismiss the appeal as improperly granted, and the motion was sustained.
The record shows that the judgment was rendered on the 3rd day of September, 1898, by default. On September 12, 1898, the defendants executed and filed in the justice’s office a bond with security in the manner provided by law. The justice who rendered the judgment at the time of the presentation of the bond was absent from his office, but another justice who was there in charge received the bond and approved it, subject to the after approval of the absent justice, who afterwards, it does not appear when, endorsed it approved, and sent the papers to the circuit court. The appeal was-there dismissed because the justice made no order granting it, nor did it appear that the
The bond was in the control and custody of the absent justice within the ten days by being filed among the papers in his office, and endorsed approved. It is further objected that the bond is indefinite for want of a scroll opposite the name of one of the sureties. This objection, if at all tenable, can be corrected in the circuit court by the requirement of a new bond, under section 170, chapter 50, Code.
The judgment is reversed and case remanded for further proceedings.
Reversed.