C. HARRIET REED, INDIVIDUALLY AND JOINED BY HER HUSBAND, HARRISON REED, APPELLANT,
v.
MENDEL CROMER, ET AL., APPELLEES
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Mrs. Catherine Harriet Reed appealed a final decree in a chancery case more than eight months after its entry and sought a supersedeas order. The Florida Supreme Court held that appeals in chancery must be taken within six months regardless of the appellant's marital status, and that statutory provisions granting married women two years to sue out writs of error do not extend the time for taking an appeal.
The court held that Section 3168 controls and requires all appeals in chancery to be taken within six months after entry of the decree, regardless of whether the appellant is a married woman. Section 3173 limits the application of writ of error provisions to post-appeal proceedings and does not extend Section 2910's two-year period to the time for taking an appeal.
“Section 3168, Revised General Statutes of Florida, 1920, provides that 'Appeals in chancery * * * must be taken within six months after the entry of the order or decree appealed from.'”
Establishes the controlling statute requiring all chancery appeals to be taken within six months regardless of appellant's status
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Browne, J.
A former appeal of this case was dismissed on motion of appellees, because it was made returnable on a date more than ninety days from the entry of the appeal.
On the 30th day of November, 1923, Mrs. Catherine Harriet Reed, a married woman, one of the former appellants, “individually and joined by her husband,” entered her appeal from the same final decree, more than eight months after its entry.
Application is now made to this court for an order of supersedeas, in the new appeal. Section 2910, Revised General Statutes of Florida, 1920, provides: “Where a married woman shall be a party to-any such judgment she shall be allowed two years in which to sue out a writ of error upon the same.”
Section 3173, Revised General Statutes of Florida, 1920, provides: ‘ ‘ The provisions of law relating to writs of error governing the filing of transcripts of record, and proceedings thereon, and filing assignments of errors, the duty of appellate court in examining the record and giving judgment, in causing execution of its decrees and in quashing writs of error shall be applicable to appeals in chancery. ’ ’
The appellant seeks to find authority for the new appeal in the provisions of these two sections, and contends that because it was taken by Mrs. Catherine Harriet Reed,' a married woman, it comes within their provisions, and can be maintained.
Section 3168, Revised General Statutes of Florida, 1920, provides that “Appeals in chancery * * * must be taken within six months after the entry of the order or decree appealed from.”
Section 3173, Revised General Statutes of Florida, 1920, limits the application of the “provisions of the law relating to writs of error,” to steps taken after the appeal, and confines the application of its provisions to the specific things enumerated therein:”
We think that Section 3168, Revised General Statutes, controls, and that all appeals whether by a married woman or any other person, must be taken within six months after the entry of the order or decree appealed from, and that Section 3173 does not operate to substitute Section 2910 of the Revised General Statutes in relation to the limitation of time for suing out writs of error for Section .3168, Revised General Statutes, which, limits the time for taking an appeal in chancery.
The application for an order of supersedeas is denied, and the appeal dismissed.
Taylor, G. J., and Ellis, J., concur. Whitfield, P. J., and West and Terrell, J. J., concur in the opinion.
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