Emerson, Fisher & Co. v. Dye
Emerson, Fisher & Co. v. Dye
Opinion of the Court
delivered the opinion of the court.
.This is an appeal from the judgment of the Superior court-reversing the judgment of the lower court, the appellants, here having been appellees in the Superior court. They did not file any statement of parties or assignment of errors, and, it is alleged, failed to pay tax on the appeal to this, court. For these reasons the appellees, who filed a statement of parties'and assignment of errors in their appeal to. the Superior court, move to dismiss the present appeal from that court. The motion must be overruled on each ground. First — Because section 8 of the “Act establishing a Superior court,” among other things, provides: “Whenever an appeal is granted from the Superior court to the Court of Appeals, the clerk shall transfer the case from the docket of the Superior court to that of the Court of Appeals, and the same record zcpon which the case was tried in the Superior-court shall be used in the Court of Appeals.”
It is the duty of the clerk to require the tax to be paid before he grants the appeal or files the record, but if he does not do this, it will, while he is responsible to the State for tax precisely as if he had done his duty, furnish no ground for dismissing an appeal from the Superior court.
The several motions are therefore denied.
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