Lee v. Cook
Wyoming Supreme Court
Error to the District Court of Uinta County. A motion was made by the defendants in error to dismiss the proceedings in error upon the grounds: Eirst, that such proceedings were not commenced within one year from the entry of judgment, as required by the statute as amended; second, that the bill of exceptions was not signed and filed within the time prescribed by law. cited: Laws of Wyoming, 1877, 23; Civil Code, 522.; 17 Wallace, 599; Cooley’s Const.
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Error to the District Court of Uinta County. A motion was made by the defendants in error to dismiss the proceedings in error upon the grounds: Eirst, that such proceedings were not commenced within one year from the entry of judgment, as required by the statute as amended; second, that the bill of exceptions was not signed and filed within the time prescribed by law. cited: Laws of Wyoming, 1877, 23; Civil Code, 522.; 17 Wallace, 599; Cooley’s Const. Lim. 286-87, 381-82; Civil Code, sec. 300; Walton v. TJ. 8., 9 Wheat. 651; Irwin v. Brown, 6 Ohio St. 12; 4 Ohio St. 500; Comp. Laws of…
1Opinion of the Court
By the Court,
Peck, J.
The first objection alleged in the motion is, that the appellate proceedings was not instituted within a year after the rendition of the judgment below. That judgment was rendered on the twelfth day of February, 1877, the statute then in force limiting the period for the proseentiou of appeals to this court at section 522, page 107 of the Comp. Laws, declared: “No proceeding for reversing, vacating or modifying judgments or final orders, shall be commenced unless within three years from the rendition of the judgment or making of that order.”
The act of December 15, 1877,…
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