Railroad Co. v. Harris

Supreme Court of the United States
Railroad Co. v. Harris, 74 U.S. 574 (1869)
19 L. Ed. 100; 7 Wall. 574; 1868 U.S. LEXIS 1038

Railroad Co. v. Harris

Opinion

The CHIEF JUSTICE

delivered the opinion of the court.

The right of the plaintiff in órror to the writs for which *575 the motion now before us is made, depends on the question whether, by the proceedings taken in the case, the writ of ■ error upon the first judgment became a supersedeas?

And this question is answered by the express words of the twenty-third section of the Judiciary Act.

The legislature has seen fit to make the lodging of a -copy of the writ, within ten days, a prerequisite to the operation of the writ as a supersedeas. The cause was removed from the inferior court to this court, by the issuing of the writ; and the due service of it upon the court to which it is addressed; but its additional effect, as a supersedeas,, depends upon compliance with the conditions imposed by the .act. We cannot dispense with that compliance in respect' to lodging a copy for the adverse, party.

The motion for writs of supersedeas in both cases, must,'' therefore, be denied;,and as the second writ of error brings nothing before us, unless the writ in the first'case operated-as a supersedeas under the statute, that writ must be .

Dismissed.

Reference

Full Case Name
Railroad Company v. Harris
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8 cases
Status
Published
Syllabus
To make a writ of error operate-as a supersedeas, it is indispensable that'the requirements of tbe act of Congress be strictly fulfilled. It is not enough that the writ be issued and served, but a copy of the writ must be lodged, fofi the adverse party, within ten days, Sundays exclusive, after judg1 ment or decree.