Wagoner v. Busey
Wagoner v. Busey
Opinion of the Court
On the nineteenth day of February, 1897, the circuit court sustained a motion for costs. The plaintiff was required to file a bond for costs sixty days before the first day of the next term of court thereafter, to wit, the August term. The plaintiff failed to comply with the order within the prescribed time. The cause was set for trial August 21, 1897. On the seventeenth of August, and during the August term, the plaintiff filed the undertaking of Chas. F. Vogel to pay the costs, to which was attached the affidavit of Vogel, that he owned unincumbered property, subject to sale under execution of the value of $600 or more. On the following day, to wit, the eighteenth, the defendants filed a motion to dismiss the cause for failure on the part of plaintiff to comply with the order of the court. On the nineteenth and during the absence of plaintiff’s attorney, the court sustained the motion to dismiss. Afterward on the same day plaintiff filed a motion to set aside the order of dismissal and to reinstate the cause on the docket. The grounds of this motion were, first, that the order requiring a cost bond was improvidently entered, as no notice of the motion for costs was given, either to the plaintiff or his attorney, as required by the rules of court, and, second, that the plaintiff had fully complied with the rule before the motion to dismiss was disposed of. (R. S. 1889, sec. 2916.) The rule of court referred to requires notice of the filing of a
With the concurrence of the other judges the judgment of the circuit court will be affirmed.
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