First Nat. Bank of Vicksburg v. Cutrer
Decision Date | 17 October 1966 |
Docket Number | No. 44090,44090 |
Citation | 190 So.2d 883 |
Parties | FIRST NATIONAL BANK OF VICKSBURG v. Mrs. Sybil CUTRER. |
Court | Mississippi Supreme Court |
Harry R. Allen, Brunini, Everett, Grantham & Quin, Vicksburg, for appellant.
Prewitt, Bullard & Braddock, Vicksburg, for appellee.
This is an appeal from the judgment of the Circuit Court of Warren County wherein the court sustained the motion of the Appellee, Mrs. Sybil Cutrer, to strike from the record the county court reporter's transcript of the evidence and also sustained the motion of the appellee to docket and dismiss the appeal of the Appellant, First National Bank of Vicksburg. We reverse the judgment of the lower court and remand this case to the circuit court for consideration on the merits.
On February 2, 1965, the jury in the County Court of Warren County returned a verdict for $6,500.00 in favor of the Plaintiff, Mrs. Sybil Cutrer, and against the Defendant, First National Bank of Vicksburg. On the same day, the defendant filed a motion for judgment notwithstanding the verdict and also a motion for a new trial. On the next day, February 3, 1965, before the two pending motions had been disposed of, the defendant gave written notice to the court reporter to transcribe her notes as an appeal was desired to the circuit court. In the notice the defendant stated, 'We will post bond within the required period.'
On February 5, 1965, an order overruling the motion for judgment notwithstanding the verdict was entered. On the same day, February 5, 1965, judgment on the jury verdict of February 2, 1965, was entered, and also an order overruling the motion for a new trial. On February 8, 1965, the defendant filed an appeal bond with supersedeas, thereby perfecting its appeal from the county court to the circuit court. In her motion to strike the county court reporter's transcript of the evidence and the entire record, the appellee-plaintiff alleged that:
'Appellant's Notice to the Court Reporter was dated and given to the Court Reporter on February 3, 1965, prior to the Court's passing upon and disposing of Appellant's Motion for Judgment Notwithstanding the Verdict and Appellant's Motion for New Trial, which were not disposed of by the Court until February 5, 1965, when both Motions were overruled, and under the decision in the case of Mayflower Mills v. Breeland, 168 Miss. 207, 149 So. 787 (1933) the Court Reporter's notes, transcribed and filed must be stricken from the record.'
In Mayflower Mills v. Breeland, 168 Miss. 207, 212-13, 149 So. 787 (1933), this Court in its opinion summarized the facts as follows:
On December 2, 1931, before the motion for a new trial had been disposed of, the following notice to the court reporter was given:
'You will please transcribe the stenographic notes taken by you at the trial of the above styled case at the November term thereof, if, and when the circuit judge overrules the motion for a new trial filed in the case, as an appeal is desired to be taken to the Supreme Court of the State of Mississippi.' 168 Miss. at 214, 149 So. at 788.
This Court in ruling on the questions involved said:
'* * *'
'In legal effect, the notes are not officially the notes of the court reporter, because he was given no legal notice, and the giving of this notice is jurisdictional.' 168 Miss. at 215, 149 So. at 788.
We are of the opinion that the Mayflower Mills case is not controlling. Prior to the decision in Mayflower Mills, this Court decided Clark v. Merchants & Manufacturers' Bank, 128 Miss. 206, 90 So. 844 (1922). In that case the chancellor orally announced his decision, and the losing party gave notice to the court reporter to file a transcript of the evidence, which the court reporter did. The decree was not entered on the minutes until four days after the notice to the court reporter had been given. This Court overruled the motion to strike the transcript, and reasoned thusly,
'We are of opinion that the statute does not require the notice to be given after the adjournment of the court, but only that it be given before the expiration of 10 days therefrom, and that notice given after the oral decision of a case and before the entry of the judgment on the minutes of the court is valid.' 128 Miss. at 211, 90 So. at 844.
In Redmond v. Hilliard, 190 Miss. 839, 199 So. 83, 200 So. 130 (1940), the notice to the court reporter was given prior to the entry on the minutes of the order overruling the motion for a new trial and prior to adjournment of court but after the judge had orally announced he would overrule the motion for a new trial. In overruling the motion of appellee to strike the transcript, the Court discussed at some length Clark v. Merchants and Manufacturers Bank, supra, and Mayflower Mills v. Breeland, supra, and construed the opinion in Mayflower Mills to mean that the notes were stricken for two reasons, namely, the notice was given prior to action on the motion for a new trial, and the notice was conditioned upon 'if and when said motion should be afterwards overruled.' It is also significant that in Mayflower Mills v....
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