71 Mo. 170 | Mo. | 1879
The statutbry provisions regarding appeals to this court, so far as necessary to be quoted, are
We cannot entertain the idea that the Legislature intended to convey any other meaning than that which their language so clearly expresses. So far as we are informed, it has been the constant practice in the country circuits to take an appeal soon after the motion for a new trial is overruled, and then to file the bond at any time during the term; and this practice was thought to fall within the purview of the statute; and no thought was entertained that the trial court had lost its jurisdiction to take a bond, be
We are of the opinion, also, that it is a matter of no importance that the term has now passed during which the judgment of the court of appeals was rendered. An incident of this sort by no means divests the power of this court to afford that measure of relief which is applied for in the present instance. We, therefore, shall award a peremptory writ.