Public-domain · open source
OpenJurist

34 N.C. 24

Ray v. . Ray

Supreme Court of North Carolina

Decided June 5, 1851

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

The judgment of the Supreme Court in this case, being certified to the Superior Court for Cumberland County, at its Spring Session, 1851, A judgment and execution for the costs of the said Superior Court against the defendant and his sureties on the appeal bond, (to be taxed by the clerk,) were moved for by the petitioner’s counsel.

Cited by 1 later decisions — most recently May 1962

1 state decisions

Good law ✅— No negative treatment on recordhow we know

Decided 1851-06-05

View the full empirical analysis of this case →

Pearson, J.

¶1 There is no error, A judgment for the-costs of the County Court ought not to have been rendered in the Superior Court, because it was repugnant, and inconsistent with the fact, that there' was no right of appeal, and of course no case constituted in that Court.

¶2 After the appeal to this Court, upon the question, as to the costs of the County Court, it was clearly right to refuse to grant a procedendo, because, thereby, the County Court would have been called upon to give a judgment, as to the costs of that Court, whereas the appeal assumed, that that judgment ought to have been rendered in the Superior Court, and it was repugnant and inconsistent, pending an appeal, which was taken to try the question, whether the Superior Court ought not to have given the judgment, to *26 move for a procedendo, under which the County Court must have given it.

¶3 Another view may be taken of the question. If the Superior Court refuses to obey the mandate of this Court, the ■.counsel is not to appeal, for there is no question to be reviewed, but to apply for a mandamus. In this case, the ■refusal is accounted for and explained by the fact of the appeal, as to the question of costs, pending which, the proce-diendo ought not to have been sent, for thereby the case would have been split ■up and put in two Courts at the same ■time.

¶4 Per Curiam. Judgment affirmed.

/34/nc/24 · .json · Public domain