Sutherland v. Pearce
Opinion of the Court
The appeal in this case docketed as No. 1,932 having been docketed by counsel for appellee and dismissed on January 5, 1911, upon the production of the certificate of the clerk of the District Court of Alaska reciting certain proceedings in that court, and this court having adjourned to the first Monday in February, the appellants filed a petition in the District Court of Alaska for a second appeal on January 24, 1911, and the appeal was on that day allowed. A cost bond in the sum of $500 was thereafter given and filed by the appellants. On the same day application was made to Judge Morrow of this court in San Francisco to fix the amount of a supersedeas bond on the second appeal. An order was accordingly made fixing such bond in the sum of $30,000. Under this order a supersedeas bond was filed February 7, 1911, in the District Court of Alaska, approved by Judge Lyons of that court.
Under section 506 of the Alaska Code of Civil Procedure, the time for taking an appeal from the decree of June 1, 1910, will not expire until June 1, 1911. The second appeal was therefore taken in time, and, if it should turn out that the first appeal was lost, such second appeal would become effective. This second appeal appears to have been taken for the purpose of preserving whatever rights appellants might have on proceedings on appeal notwithstanding the dismissal of the first appeal. An order having now been made by this court setting aside the dismissal of the first appeal and restoring that appeal with its supersedeas bond, it is not necessary to make any final order at this time with respect to the order granting supersedeas on the second appeal. The order will be allowed to stand until the appeal in the first case is heard on the merits.
But as the motion is made by the appellee to set aside the order granting the supersedeas on the second appeal
In Slaughterhouse Cases, 10 Wall. 273, 291, 19 L.Ed. 915, the court said: “Power to issue a supersedeas to a judgment rendered in a subordinate court does not exist in this court where the writ of error is not sued out and served within 10 days (extended to 60 days by section 11, Act of June 1, 1872, c. 255, 17 Stat. 198) from the date of the judgment, except where the aggrieved party is obliged to sue out a second writ of error in consequence of the neglect of the clerk below to send up the record in season, or where the granting of such a writ is necessary to the exercise of the appellate jurisdiction of the court, as where the subordinate court improperly rejected the sureties to the bond because they were not residents of the district.”
We think the facts in this case bring it squarely within the statute and within the rule stated in the foregoing case.
This case, however, will be set for a hearing with the first appeal on the May calendar without prejudice to the right of the appellee to make such motion at that time as he may be advised with respect to this appeal, and the orders herein made.
It is so ordered.
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