Smith v. Ferst 66 F. 798

PARDEE, Circuit Judge.

This was an action at law in the circuit court for the Northern district of Florida, in which final judgment was entered on December 22, 1898, in favor of M. Ferst, Sons & Co., plaintiffs, and against E. P. Smith, administrator, etc., claimant. On. January 27, 1894, at the same term the judgment was rendered, the presiding judge, in open court, on the motion of claimant’s attorney, allowed a writ of error from said judgment to this court, and granted a supersedeas, on claimant giving-bond in the sum of $.1,000, conditioned according to law. Thereafter, on the 22d of March, a citation was issued signed by the judge, but it does not appear to have been addressed to any particular party, or to have been served upon any one. On the same day a bond was filed by E. P, Smith, as administrator of the estate of E. P. Jones, deceased, in favor of M. Ferst, Sons & Co. in the sum of $1,000, conditioned to answer all costs and damages if the said E. P. Smith, as administrator, etc., should fail to prosecute his writ of error to effect. This bond appears to have been approved by the judge. The record, however, does not show that *799any writ of error was actually issued in the case. On this state of facts, the motion made to dismiss the ease for want of jurisdiction must be granted. Mussina v. Cavazos, 6 Wall. 355-358; Ex parte Ralston, 119 U. S. 613, 7 Sup. Ct. 317. So ordered.