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99 N.C. 477

6 S.E 411

Harmon v. . Herndon

Supreme Court of North Carolina

Decided February 5, 1888

Supreme Court of North Carolina · decided 1888-02-05

Appeal— Undertaking — Presumption. At the Fall Term, 1886, of the Superior Court of the-County of CLEVELAND, held in the month of October, of that year, Graves, J., presiding, the plaintiffs, appellees, obtained judgment in that Court against the defendants, from which the latter appealed to this Court.

Decided 1888-02-05

Merrimok, J.

¶1 We are constrained to allow the motion-It must be taken, nothing to the contrary appearing, that the undertaking on appeal was filed on the day it was justified, and this was quite three months next after the lapse of the time within which the Court directed that it might be filed. It was held in Boyden v. Williams, 92 N. C., 546, that if the *478 ^undertaking on appeal is without date, and the justification thereof has a date, the latter date must be taken as the date of «the filing thereof. The appellants -might, however, have .-Shown that the undertaking was, in fact, filed within the time allowed by the Court. They did not offer to do so, and ■■the inference is they could not.

¶2 This case does not come within the statute (Acts 1887, ch. 121, § 1). The failure to give the undertaking on appeal is not an irregularity ” within the meaning of that statute. Bowen v. Fox, 98 N. C., 396.

¶3 The appellees are entitled to have their motion allowed.

¶4 Appeal dismissed.

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