Pace v. Lanier

Citations

• 25 Fla. 558

Syllabus

<p>1. Tlie statute regulating appeals in cases at law provides that the party appealing, if defendant, shall give a bond, specifying its condition, “with one or more securities in a sum sufficient to cover the amount for which judgment has been given, * * with costs.” A motion to dismiss an appeal in a oase at law on the ground that each of the two securitks on the appeal bond is bound in a sum only half that for which the appellant is bound, will not be granted, assuming that the groundof themotionconstitutes an irregularity in the bond, when the motion is not made until after all remedies for reviewing the judgment appealed from have become barred by the lapse of time, and the appellee has previously appeared and taken proceedings in the appellate court where the cause has been pending for several terms.</p>