Mitchell v. Dexter Interiors

EDWARD N. SCRUGGS, Retired Circuit Judge.

The parties shall be referred to as plaintiff and defendant as they existed in the lower courts.

The plaintiff sued the defendant for account and account stated in the district court. A judgment was rendered in plaintiff’s favor on June 19, 1979, and the defendant immediately filed her notice of appeal and bond for costs to appeal to the circuit court. The defendant did not file a supersedeas bond.

In the circuit court the plaintiff filed a motion to require the defendant to file a supersedeas bond relative to the plaintiff’s district court judgment…