Briggs v. Buckner

(after stating the case as above). It is insisted by appellants that the court erred in not allowing them to file a new bond in lieu of the defective appeal bond, because (1) the statutory provision allowing appellants to amend defective bonds in appeal of civil eases by filing a new bond is an existing provision of law, and was not repealed in the revision of the laws in 1925; and (2) article 1840, R. S., applies to eases appealed from the justice courts to county courts, as well as cases appealed from county and district courts to the Courts of Civil Appeals.

Prior to 1905 there was no…