Wright v. Stanford
Wright v. Stanford
Opinion of the Court
The appellee did not move to dismiss the suit for the want of security for costs promptly, as he should have •done. On the contrary, he filed his pleas on the first day of the January 1911, term of circuit court. Five days later the appellant filed his replications to said pleas, and two days after this appellee, for the first time, filed his motion to dismiss the suit because no bond had been filed within the time limited by law and the order of the court. The bond was filed sixty-one days, just one day too late, after the order requiring security to be given. In Kittle v. Railroad, 92 Miss. 381, 45 South. 867, the court said: “In all cases where it is not shown that the failure
Applying this principle in the light of the facts of this case, we think the court erred in dismissing the suit-
Reversed and remanded-
Per Curiam. The above opinion is adopted as the opinion of the court and for the reasons therein indicated the judgment is reversed, and the cause remanded-
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- J. C. Wright v. F. M. Stanford
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- 1. Code of 190.6, Section 940. Security for cost. Failure to give. Dismissal. Where in a suit plaintiff is required by the court to give bond for cost under Code of 1906, section 940, in sixty days, but fails to give such bond until the sixty-first day, the case should not be dismissed, where it is not shown that the failure to comply with the order of the court as to time has operated injuriously to the rights of other parties to the litigation. :2. Same. In such case the cost bond, should be allowed to be filed at any time before the actual dismissal of the suit.