Brown v. Maryland Casualty Co.

George Rose Smith, Justice.

This motion by one of the appellees, Maryland Casualty Company, to dismiss the appeal of another appellee, Housing Authority of Pike County, requires us to construe the term “cross appeal” as it was used in a 1957 amendment to Act 555 of 1953, reading in part as follows:

“When an appeal is permitted by law from the Circuit, Chancery or Probate Court, any party to the action may appeal from a judgment or decree, by filing a notice of appeal within thirty (30) days from the entry of the judgment or decree appealed from. Any other party to the action may cross appeal…