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12 S.C. 563

Lake v. Moore

Supreme Court of South Carolina

Decided December 11, 1879

Supreme Court of South Carolina · decided 1879-12-11

Motion to dismiss appeal. The decision of Fraser, J., was filed in the clerk’s office May 23d, 1879, which was during vacation. Defendants’ attorney read it same day and directed notice. of it to be served on attorney for plaintiff, which was done. Subsequently defendants’ attorney obtained a copy of the decision from the deputy clerk of the court. Afterwards, on July 26th, defendants gave notice of appeal. This was a motion by plaintiff to dismiss the appeal.

Key passage — most relied on by later courts

“The object of the notice is to apprise the appellant that the respondent intends to insist on an appeal within the time fixed by law , and unless such notice is given the appellant is unrestricted as it regards the time within which an appeal may be taken”

quoted by 1 later decision, including OWENS v. OWENS

Good law ✅— No negative treatment on recordhow we know

Decided 1879-12-11

How this case has been cited

Cited by 4 later decisions — most recently February 2023

4 state decisions

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¶1The opinion was delivered

Per Curiam.

¶2The respondent asks the dismissal of the appeal on the ground that the notice of appeal was not given in due time. It appears that the judgment appealed from was filed in vacation, and that no notice, in writing, was given to the appellant of its entry. It is contended, however, that the appellant had actual knowledge of the judgment, having seen and read it in the office of the clerk. This was not ground sufficient to put the statute laws for appealing in currency in the case of a judgment entered in vacation. The object of the notice is to apprise the appellant that the respondent intends to insist on an appeal within the time fixed by law, and unless such notice is *564given the appellant is unrestricted as it regards the time within which an appeal may be taken.

¶3The respondent alleges that the case was not served within thirty days after notice of appeal was given. The motion papers contain no proof of this fact, and as the burden of proof is on the party moving upon the ground of irregularity, the matter charged must be regarded as unproved.

¶4The motion must be dismissed.

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