Stiner v. . Cawthorn

From this judgment the defendant Cawthorn prayed an appeal to this Court, which was allowed him; and it was specially stated on the record "that the other defendants were satisfied with the judgment and refused to join in the appeal."(642) It was moved here by the counsel for the petitioner to dismiss the appeal for the want of jurisdiction in this Court to revise the judgment rendered in the Superior Court. In support of this motion it was insisted that where a joint judgment is rendered against two or more defendants, one alone cannot appeal therefrom; that the cases of Hicks v. Gilliam, 4…