Legal Opinion
Morfessis v. Hollywood Credit Clothing Co.
District of Columbia Court of Appeals
Decided September 27, 1960No. 2589PublishedCited by 12 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
QUINN, Associate Judge.
Appellant recovered a verdict against ap-pellee of $5,145 in an action for libel and judgment was entered accordingly on January 22, 1960. Four days later, appellee filed a notice of appeal with the clerk of the Municipal Court and submitted a super-sedeas bond to the trial judge for approval. This was done while the judge was presiding over the trial of another case and apparently, because of her divided attention, she signed the paper without noticing that the amount of the bond and its date had been omitted.
When counsel for appellant later discovered the deficiency,…
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