JAMES W. HALL, ET AL., APPELLANTS,
v.
WILLIAM PENNY, APPELLEE
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The Florida Supreme Court held that an appeal is not properly 'obtained' until all statutory requirements are met, including approval and filing of the required bond within the prescribed time period. Because the appellant's bond was approved and filed 26 days after the term ended, the appeal was dismissed as ineffective.
An appeal is not 'obtained' until all statutory requirements, including approval and filing of the bond, are complied with within the time limits prescribed by law. The court has no authority to enlarge the statute or dispense with compliance with it, and an appeal must be dismissed when the bond is not timely filed.
“the payment of all costs below, and entering into bond, as in the act prescribed, seem to be steps precedent to granting a writ of error, imperatively required by the statute. Any other construction of it would, we think, be repugnant to the act and an evasion of it, and in some measure render it inoperative.”
Establishes that compliance with statutory appeal requirements, including bond approval, is mandatory and cannot be circumvented.
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delivered the opinion of the court.
The statute of Feb’y 10, 1832, Th. Dig., 446, provides that if either party shall feel aggrieved by a final judgment, it shall be lawful for such party, during the session of the court at which the judgment is pronounced, or within ten days thereafter, to obtavn in court, if the appeal be made in term time, or in the clerk’s office if it be in vacation, his appeal to the Supreme Court, and an appeal obtained shall mi all cases operate as a supersedeas. The party appealing shall give bond. If the said appeal be applied for in term time, the application shall be made in open court, and so stated by the elerk upon the record, and the bond shall be approved by the Judge; if the appeal be applied for in vacation, the bond shall be approved by the clerk.
The act of Feb’y 12, 1836, declares that no appeal or writ of error shall be grante4 to an original plaintiff unless said plaintiff shall first pay the costs, and also give the required bond.
In the case of the Union Bank vs. McBride, 2 Fla., 7, the *595court unanimously say, after quoting the statute of 1836, that “ the payment of all costs below, and entering into bond, as in the act prescribed, seem to be steps precedent to granting a writ of error, imperatively required by the statute. Any other construction of it would, we think, be repugnant to the act and an evasion of it, and in some measure render it inoperative.” In that case, as in the present, the plaintiff in error was the plaintiff below.
This proceeding by appeal is a statutory substitute for a writ of error, and like other statutory remedies, the law creating or prescribing it must be strictly complied with. This has been the uniform rule in this State as elsewhere.
An appeal is not “ obtained ” until all the requirements of the statute necessary to make it effectual are complied with, and, in cases at law, the giving and approving of a bond is one of these prerequisites.
All the steps necessary to perfect an appeal, if the appeal be applied for during a term of the Circuit Court, must be taken during the term; and if the appeal be applied for in vacation, all the requirements of law must be complied with within ten days after the close of the term.
The statute does not provide any mode of supplying, after the expiration of the time limited, an omission of anything necessary to perfect an appeal and make it effectual, and the courts are not authorized to enlarge the statute or dispense with a compliance with it.
In the present case, the plaintiff below prayed an appeal in term time, and it was “ granted ” by the court, but the bond was not approved and filed until some twenty-six days after the close of the term.
The appeal must therefore be dismissed with costs.
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Austin v. The Town OF Oviedo, 92 So. 2d 648 (Fla. 1957)…pon by this Court. Early in the history of the development of the jurisprudence of our state,- however, the filing of an appeal bond was required by statute as a condition precedent to the perfecting of an appeal to the Supreme Court. Hall v. Penny, 13 Fla. 593; Webster v. Wailes, 35 Fla. 267, 17 So. 571. In both of the cases last cited this Court pointed out that the failure to file the bond required by the statute justified the dismissal of the appeal. Under the statute then in force the appeal automatic…
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Fleming v. Fleming, 40 Fla. 154 (Fla. 1898)…& Pr., p. 16; Palmer v. Dayton, 4 Cush. 270; Cissell v. Cissell’s Executor, 77 Mo. 371; Commonwealth v. Dunham, 22 Pick. 11; Porter v. Grisham, 3 How. (Miss.) 75; Clark v. Maine Shore Line Railroad Co. 81 Maine, 477, 17 Atl. Rep. 497; Hall v. Penny, 13 Fla. 593; Jackson v. Haisly, 27 Fla. 205, 9 South. Rep. 648; Santom v. Ballard, 133 Mass. 464), it is, therefore, ordered that said petition be, and the same is, hereby denied, and said appeal be dismissed.…
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Jackson v. Haisly, 27 Fla. 205 (Fla. 1891)
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- The Union Bank of Fla. v. Burwell McBride, 2 Fla. 7 (Fla. 1848)