Ditch v. Sennott

Counsel for appellees, at the term to which this case was appealed, moved the court to dismiss the appeal because the appeal bond was entered into and filed without security, contrary, as it was claimed, to the requirement of the decree in allowing the appeal. An inspection of the record showed that the bond had been approved by the clerk of the court, and as the court had authorized him to approve the security, the motion to dismiss was overruled. No other motion was made, and the case- was submitted on the briefs and arguments of the respective counsel upon each side.

On the ease being…