Van Stavern v. Sears

It is unnecessary to consider the merits of this case, for however just may be the demand of the appellee, as the Superior Court had at the time the case was tried, no right under the statute to proceed in the cause without the consent of the appellants, the appellee must pay the costs of this appeal as a penalty for his obstinacy in pressing the case to trial.

It was an appeal from a justice of the peace, taken by filing a bond with the clerk of the court, September 21, 1889. After that is done, all the further steps requisite to perfect the appeal are, by statute, to be taken by officers,…