Walker-Skagseth Food Stores, Inc. v. National Surety Corp.

Petitioner seeks to have reviewed and quashed a judgment of the Circuit Court of Dade County dismissing a writ of error prosecuted to it from the Civil Court of Record because of failure of petitioner to pay costs which had accrued in the cause as required by the statute.

The statute, Sec. 4618, Comp. Gen. Laws of 1927, requires that the accrued costs be paid before the writ of error is granted, but it is not made a jurisdictional prerequisite to granting the writ of error. Sec. 5168, (3) and (11) Perm. Supp., Comp. Gen. Laws of 1927, relating to writs of error from the Civil Courts of Record…