Title Guarantee & Trust Co. v. McDonnell

Citations

• 28 Wash. 359
• 68 P. 890
• 1902 Wash. LEXIS 494

Syllabus

<p>APPEAL •— SUPERSEDEAS BOND SUFFICIENCY.</p> <p>Where a judgment required a party to pay a certain sum of' money and costs, and, further, to perform certain acts within a period of thirty days, or in default of such performance, a money judgment in certain sums would.be awarded against the party, on .appeal therefrom a supersedeas bond fixed by the court in a sum larger than double the amount of the money judgment and $200 •additional, but less than double the amount conditionally required to be paid, is sufficient, under Bal. Code, § 6506, which •provides that the appeal bond shall be in a penalty of not less than $200 in any case, and, “in order to effect a stay of proceedings, the bond, where the appeal is from a final judgment for the .payment of money, shall be in a penalty double the amount of the damages and costs recovered in such judgment, and in other cases shall be in such penalty, not less than two hundred dollars, and •sufficient to save the respondent harmless from damages by reason •of the appeal, as a judge of the superior court shall prescribe.”</p>