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34 N.C. 183

Robinson v. . Bryan

Supreme Court of North Carolina

Decided June 5, 1851

Supreme Court of North Carolina · decided 1851-06-05

'The suit began in the County Court and was there tried on issues, and the plaintiff had a verdict and judgment in February 1849. The defendant appealed, and in filling up the appeal bond the name of the plaintiff, as the obligee, was omitted by the Clerk.

Decided 1851-06-05

Ruffin, C. J.

¶1 If the motion had been made at the first term it would have been proper to allow it, unless the defendant had then offered to give ‘ a sufficient bond. McDowell v. Bradley, 8 Ire. 92. So, if the defendants were not of substance to answer the plaintiff’s recovery made and the «costs, the Court might have laid them under a rule to *184 give a proper bond, which would secure the plaintiff. There was no suggestion of that kind, but the plaintiff insisted peremptorily, that the Court- should not entertain the appeal, by reason, merely, that an appeal bond had not been duly given. Now the omission to make that motion, for two years after the case was in the Superior Court for trial, is, according to the established practice, such laches as deprives the appellee o( the right to make it at all. Wallace v. Corbit 4 Ire. 45 ; Arrington v. Smith, 4 Ire. 59.

¶2 Pee. Curiam. Judgment reversed, and a procedendo awarded.

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