Grove v. Harvey

The defendant and appellee, Harvey, claims the dismissal of the appeal, on the following ground : that the appeal was granted on the 5th of September, 1841, and no appeal bond given until the 25th, and the citation only served on the 29th, but five days before the first Monday of October, the return day, although the appellee dwells in the parish of Madison, at the distance of one hundred and fifty miles from Alexandria, where the Supreme Court sits, when, according to law, the citation ought to have been served twenty-five days before the return day. The Code of Practice, article 583,…