Jenkins v. Cauley

JUDGE WHITE

delivered the opinion of the Court.

From a judgement recovered against him by Cauley, before a justice of the peace, Jenkins appealed to the Circuit Court of Wilcox county. After the cause had been in Court for several terms, and once continued by consent of the parties, Cauley moved to dismiss the appeal for want of a sufficient appeal bond. Jenkins offered to enter into a sufficient bond, but the Court refused to permit it, and dismissed the appeal, and he now assigns this matter as error.

After the term of the Court to which an appeal is taken from a justice of the peace, it is…