Legal Opinion
McDonald v. Hovey
Supreme Court of the United States
Decided March 10, 1884No. 1138PublishedCited by 117 opinions
APPEAL FROM THE SUPREME COURT OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA. The only question decided in this case relates to the taking of the appeal: It was not taken within the two years named in Rev. Stat. § 1008. . The appellant set up the disability of imprisonment as cause for the delay.
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Beadley
The decree appealed from in this case was rendered on the 17th of April, 1878, and the .appeal was not taken' until the 6th of September, 1883. § 1008 of the Revised Statutes declares that
“No judgment, decree, or order of a Circuit or District Court in any civil action, at law or in equity, shall be reviewed by the Supreme Court, on writ of error or appeal, unless the writ of error is brought, or the appeal is taken, within two years after the entry of such judgment, decree, - or order : Provided, That where a party entitled to prosecute a writ of error or to take an appeal is an infant,…
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