West Coast Manufacturing & Investment Co. v. West Coast Improvement Co.

66 P. 97, 25 Wash. 627, 1901 Wash. LEXIS 443
CourtWashington Supreme Court
DecidedAugust 27, 1901
DocketNo. 3641
StatusPublished
Cited by25 cases

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Bluebook
West Coast Manufacturing & Investment Co. v. West Coast Improvement Co., 66 P. 97, 25 Wash. 627, 1901 Wash. LEXIS 443 (Wash. 1901).

Opinion

Tlie opinion of the court was delivered by

White, J.

Respondent moves to dismiss this appeal for the reason that no appeal bond has been executed or filed as required by the statute. The judgment appealed from was entered pursuant to an order sustaining the respondent’s demurrer to appellant’s cómplaint, appellant having elected to stand on its complaint, and the action having been accordingly dismissed on the merits. The judgment is that the plaintiff take nothing by the action, and that the defendant recover of the plaintiff its costs and disbursements to be taxed. Erom the recitals in the judgment it may be conceded that, it is a final judgment on the merits. The record shows that the amount of the [629]*629costs and disbursements taxed is $10. The judgment of dismissal, and the amount of costs taxed, are set forth in the recitals of the hond. The penalty of the bond is in the sum of $250. The condition of the bond is to the effect that the appellant will pay all costs and damages that may be awarded against it on the appeal or on the dismissal thereof, not exceeding two hundred dollars, and will pay and satisfy and perform the judgment appealed from in case it shall he affirmed, and any judgment or order which the supreme court may render or make, or order to be rendered or made, by the superior court from which the appeal is taken. The respondent contends that, inasmuch as the hond is both an appeal and supersedeas bond, the penalty, under § 6506, Ballinger’s Annotated Codes and Statutes, should be in the sum of at least four hundred dollars. Under § 6506, supra, the penalty of an appeal bond shall not be less than two hundred dollars, and, in order to effect a stay of proceedings, where the appeal is from a final judgment for the recovery of money, it shall be in a penalty double the amount of the damages and costs recovered in such judgment; in other cases it shall not be less than $200, and sufficient to save the respondent harmless from damages by reason of the appeal, as the judge of the superior court shall prescribe. While the judgment appealed from was a judgment for costs, it was as much a judgment for money as if it had been for a principal sum and costs. The statute is clear, and there is no room for construction. It means just what it says, viz., that all final judgments for money may be superseded on appeal by a bond for double the amount of such judgment. Here there is a judgment for ten dollars, and a bond in the penal sum of two hundred and fifty dollars. A bond for $220 would have been sufficient and a literal compliance with the statute. The fact that [630]*630it is more than the exact sum cannot militate against the appellant. The purpose of a supersedeas bond is to protect the respondent in the collection of his judgment and in the enforcement of the relief awarded him by the judgment. All the respondent could obtain by this judgment was the sum of ten -dollars. Upon the payment of this amount the respondent was bound to fully satisfy and discharge the judgment upon the records of the court. The bond in this case is more than double the amount of the money judgment appealed, and two- hundred dollars additional, as required by law. Under the conditions of the bond, the respondent was fully secured in the amount recovered by it in the judgment, as well as for costs and damages up to two hundred dollars on appeal. The motion to dismiss the appeal is therefore denied.

The complaint in this action, omitting formal allegations, is substantially as follows:

“Second. That on or about the 22d day of October, 1889, the plaintiff purchased from the defendant a certain tract of land, situated in Ballard, King county, Washington, and paid part of the purchase money expressed in the deed hereinafter mentioned, and thereafter, on the 13th day of August, 1890, upon payment by the plaintiff of the balance of the cash consideration for said purchase, the defendant by its officers thereunto duly authorized made, executed, and delivered to the plaintiff its certain deed to said premises, in the words and figures following, to wit:
“ ‘This indenture, made the 13th day of August, 1890, between The West Coast Improvement Company, a corporation duly incorporated, organized and existing under and by virtue of the laws of the state of Washington, the party of the first part, and the West Coast Manufacturing and Investment Company of Ballard, Washington, also a corporation, the party of the second part:
“ ‘Witnesseth, that the said party of the first part for and in consideration of seven hundred and fifty dollars [631]*631to it paid by tlie said party of the second part, does hereby grant, bargain, sell and convey to said party of the second part and to its successors and assigns forever, the following described tracts or parcels of real estate, tying and being in the county of King, state of Washington, and particularly bounded and described as follows, to-wit: Beginning at the corner of sections 11, 12, 13 and 14, Township 25 ETorth, Range 3 East, thence north on the line between sections 11 and 12, 62 7-10 feet to the southerly margin of Shilshole Avenue, thence north 66 deg. 18 mins, west along» said marginal line 252 feet to the easternmost corner of the tract described as follows: Erom its easternmost corner run thence S. 23 deg. 42 mins., west 330 feet; thence ET. 66 deg. 18 mins., west 250 feet; thence ET. 23 deg. 42 mins., E. 330 feet to the southerly line of Shilshole Avenue; thence S. 66 deg. 18 mins. E. along said marginal line 250 feet to the place of beginning, together with all the littoral, riparian and shore rights thereunto belonging or in any wise appertaining.
“ ‘Together with all and singular the tenements, hereditaments and appurtenances thereunto belonging, or in any 'wise appertaining. And also all the estate, right, title and interest, at law and in equity therein or thereto.
“ ‘To have and to hold the said premises to the said party of the second part, and to his successors and assigns forever; and the said party of the first part does covenant with the said party of the second part and its legal representatives, forever, that the said premises are free from all incumbrances; and the said party of the first part will, and its successors and assigns shall warrant and defend tlie- same to the said party of the second part, its successors and assigns forever, against the lawful claims and demands of all persons whatsoever......5
“Third. That at the time of making* said contract, to-wit: in October, 1899, the defendant had recently platted and laid out a townsite in the vicinity of and adjacent to the lands hereinbefore described^ and had just placed the same upon the market, and had platted said townsite to deep water (and claimed to own and held itself out as the [632]*632owner of all the lands to deep water), and the actual consideration for said conveyance, in addition to the payment of seven hundred and fifty dollars in cash, was that the plaintiff should erect and put in operation in a short time a shingle mill and shingle manufacturing plant upon said premises for the purpose of aiding and promoting the sale of the lands of the defendant so platted and laid out into a townsite.
“Fourth.

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66 P. 97, 25 Wash. 627, 1901 Wash. LEXIS 443, Counsel Stack Legal Research, https://law.counselstack.com/opinion/west-coast-manufacturing-investment-co-v-west-coast-improvement-co-wash-1901.