McPhail v. Blaun

Mississippi Supreme Court
McPhail v. Blaun, 95 Miss. 53 (Miss. 1909)
48 So. 725
Fletcher

McPhail v. Blaun

Opinion of the Court

Fletcher, J.,

delivered the opinion of the court.

The sole question here for decision is as to the power of Justice Moreland to approve an appeal bond in a ease tried by another justice. Section 83 of the Cbde of 1906, as construed many times by this court, makes it necessary to the validity of an appeal from a justice’s court that the appeal bond shall be presented to and approved by the justice who tried the case within five days after the rendition of the adjudgment. This rule is recognized by the appellant, who insists that he is absolved from its operation by reason of the fact that the case was begun before Moreland, and that Moreland in fact sat as part of the court on the trial. But Moreland, upon suggestion of his disqualification by reason of kinship, had, as provided by law in such cases, transferred the cause, and the circuit judge found as a fact that he did not further participate as a justice in the trial. We cannot. overthrow this finding on the showing made by this record.

The appeal was properly dismissed, and the judgment is affirmed.

Reference

Full Case Name
John S. McPhail v. James A. Blaun
Cited By
4 cases
Status
Published
Syllabus
Justices oe the Peace. Appeal to Circuit Court. Approval of appeal bond. Code 1906, § 83. Where it appeared in a suit instituted before a justice of the peace that he was disqualified to preside and the cause was transferred, Code 1906, § 2724, to and decided by another justice of the peace, a bond given to appeal from the judgment to the circuit court, under Code 1906, § 83, providing for such appeals, must be given to and approved by the justice rendering the judgment and not by the justice before whom the suit was begun.