49 S.C. 322 | S.C. | 1897
The opinion of the Court was delivered by
This is a motion‘to dismiss an appeal in the above case, and failing that, to require the respondent .to give security; said motion is based on all papers in the case and affidavits attached to notice of motion. The papers show that on December 3,1896; his Honor, Judge Witherspoon, issued a peremptory mandamus to F. W. P. Nance, Esq., as sheriff .of Abbeville County, requiring him to sell certain lands in said county, in the case of C. P. Matthews, as executor, &c., of Bud C. Matthews, deceased, against F. M. Pope. From said order, F. W. P. Nance, as sheriff, duly appealed, and made application to Mr. Justice Pope for a stay of proceedings pending said appeal. Mr. Justice Pope, at chambers, on December 5,1896, granted an order staying proceedings in the matter until further order of the Court. The grounds of motion are that no notice was given petitioner, no order of papers served on him or his attorneys, nor was the original order served upon said Nance; that Code of Procedure does not provide for order staying proceedings pending appeal from order directing writ of mandamus; that no appeal was pending from order of Judge Witherspoon, aiid that Mr. Justice Pope was without jurisdiction to grant the order, and in any view of the case security should have been required.
As to whether an appeal was pending m this Court, the