Woodcock v. Bennet

20 Johns. 501

• Court: Court for the Trial of Impeachments and Correction of Errors
• Decided: September 15, 1822
• Status: Published

Opinion

Per Curiam.

The appellant must file his petition of appeal, addressed to this Court, before it can be possessed of the cause. By the rules of this Court,

* that petition must be filed in the office of the register, or assistant register, with whom the decree, or order appealed from, has been entered ; and he annexes to it the decree, or order appealed from; and the petition of appeal, with the matter annexed, is to be brought into this Court and filed. The answer of the respondent to that petition, is, then, to be filed in this Court; and the cause being at issue, may then be placed on the calendar. The motion, in the present case, must, therefore, he granted ; but if the respondent is desirous of hastening the appellant, he may enter a rule, in this Court, requiring the appellant to file his petition of appeal in eight days, or be precluded.

Sherwood, said, he would take a rule accordingly, and inquired whether a service of it upon the counsel for the appellant, would be sufficient, as his solicitor resided in a distant county.

Platt, J. said, that it was made a question, at a former session of the Court, whether such a service was good, and the Court expressed their opinion that it was sufficient.

Papers in this Court may be served on the counsel in the cause.

Sherwood then asked for a shorter rule than eight days, but the Court said he must take the usual rule.

Note. Saturday, September 7. The Chief Justice read an order respecting the service of papers in this Court, which the Court adopted, and which is, as follows : “ Ordered, that the service of all notices, copies of orders, and affidavits, in this Court, during the sitting of the Court, may be made on the counsel for the parties, and, also, on the agents for the attorney of the parties; but when made on- agents, double the time of service shall be allowed.’'

The Chief Justice said, that by agents, was meant agents in the Supreme Court.

Vide 16 Johns. Rep. 604, Rule VII.