Ellis v. Sutton
Ellis v. Sutton
Opinion of the Court
delivered the opinion of the court.
This is an appeal from an interlocutory decree rendered in vacation, dissolving a temporary injunction and awarding the appellees damages for the wrongful suing out of the injunction. The appeal was applied for and granted within ten days after the rendition of the decree, but the appeal bond was-not filed until more than five months thereafter, and then seemingly -only because the appellees were about to have an execution, issued for the collection of the damages awarded them on the dissolution of the injunction. The cause now comes on to b’e heard on á motion by the appellees to dismiss the appeal.
The appellant pleads in bar of' this motion that his failure to give this bond within the thirty days required by section 35, Code of 1906] (section 10, Hemingway’s Code), was because of a verbal agreement entered into between E. N. Miller, one of his counsel, and Gr. Wood Magee, of counsel for the appellees, that the appeal was unnecessary, and that no execution would be issued on the decree appealed from until after the cause was finally disposed of, and that by violating this agreement, and thereby causing it to become necessary for him to appeal the case in order to prevent the issuance of the execution, the appellees either waived the limitation of thirty days within which such appeal bonds should be given or are now estopped from pleading such limitation. The making of this agreement is affirmed on oath by Miller, and denied on' oath by Magee.
Sustained.
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- Appeal and Ebror. Limitation of time within which appeal bond should, be filed, held, not waived,. The limitation provided by section 85, Code 1906 (Hemingway’s Code, section 10), on the time in which appeal bonds in interlocutory appeals must be given is not waived by an agreement between counsel that the appeal bond need not be filed, and that the issuance of execution on the decree should await the final determination of the cause, nor is’ the appellee estopped thereby from pleading the limitation, when he afterwards has an execution issued in violation of the agreement.