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21 Ariz. 245

Scott v. Cowan

Arizona Supreme Court

Decided February 3, 1920

Arizona Supreme Court · decided 1920-02-03

<p>Costs — ¡Statutory Damages Allowed for Frivolous Appeal. — Where judgment was obtained April 18, 1919, and defendant on September 6, 1919, gave notice of appeal, and on September 16, 1919, filed a supersedeas bond, and from that time until January 2, 1920, took no other steps in the case, appellee, having paid the filing fees and caused the notice of appeal, bond on appeal, and judgment to be filed on the latter date, should be allowed statutory damages as for a frivolous appeal.</p>

Cited by 1 later decisions — most recently November 1925

1 state decisions

Relies on Nienstedt v. Dorrington · Atlas Copper Co. v. Eyring

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Affirmed · Decided 1920-02-03

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ROSS, J.

¶1

¶2The appellees obtained judgment against the appellants on April 18, 1919, in the sum of $1,842.20, with interest thereon at the rate of six per cent per annum until paid and costs of the lower court taxed at $13.60/ Thereafter, on September 6, 1919, one of the defendants, Charles R. Scott, gave notice of appeal from the judgment of the lower court, and on September 16, 1919, filed a supersedeas bond which had the effect to stay the execution. Since that time the appellant has taken no step in the case. On January 2, 1920, appellees paid the filing fees and caused the notice of appeal, bond on appeal and judgment to be filed in this court, and at the same time made their motion that the judgment be affirmed, and for damages in the sum of $184.22 as for a frivolous appeal.

¶3This appears to be a case in which the motion should be granted. Nienstedt v. Dorrington, 16 Ariz. 121, 141 Pac. 569; Atlas Copper Co. of Arizona v. Eyring et al., 19 Ariz. 597, 173 Pac. 947.

¶4It is therefore ordered that the judgment of the lower court be affirmed, and that the appellees be allowed the sum of $184.22 as statutory damages as for a frivolous appeal, and that the judgment run against said appellant and the sureties on the appeal bond.

¶5CUNNINGHAM, C. J., and BAKER, J., concur.

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