McCaleb v. McCaleb

70 So. 563 | Miss. | 1915

Smith, C. J.,

delivered the opinion of the court.

per curiam. Affirmed.

ON SUGGESTION OE ERROR.

This is an appeal from a decree against appellants on an issue devisavit vet non in the court below. The order in the court helow allowing the fees of the persons summoned as jurors to be paid out of the county treasury contained also a provision that “the allowances aforesaid, together with all other costs in this cause, be taxed as costs in this cause and included in the judgment to be entered in the disposition of this cause.” Appellants now suggest that we erred in affirming the judgment of the court below in so far as this item of court costs is concerned, and to that. extent judgment should be reversed.

The question here presented was not raised by the assignment of error, and is not referred to in either of the briefs filed by counsel for appellants upon the original hearing of this cause, so that it was not presented to us for adjudication, and therefore we committed no error in affirming the decree of the court below. While this court has the right oñ its own motion to raise questions not included in the assignment of error, it is not called upon, and ordinarily does not pass upon any question not raised thereby; so that the suggestion of error must be overruled.

The question here presented, however is one with which appellees have no concern, and is really a controversy between appellants and the county of Harrison. This being true, the mandate will be withheld and the cause retained so that appellants may within ten days file an assignment of error raising the point here in question, serving a copy thereof upon the attorney-general; ap-. pellants’ brief to be filed within one week after the filing of the assignment of error; the brief of the attorney-general, should he desire to reply thereto, to be filed within one week thereafter; and appellants ’ reply to be filed within five days after the filing of the attorney-general’s brief.

The matter will then be passed upon by the court without a further formal submission of the cause.