VEITCH AND CO.
v.
THE FARMERS BANK OF ALEXANDRIA
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Veitch and Co. sought relief when the Farmers Bank of Alexandria appealed a circuit court decision to the Supreme Court but failed to post the required bond and security or file a transcript of the record within the time prescribed by the Court's rules. The Supreme Court dismissed the appeal for failure to comply with the mandatory procedural requirements necessary to perfect an appeal.
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ON motion of Mr Swann, of counsel for the complainant and appell.ee in this cause, and a certificate of the clerk of the circuit court of the United States for the district of Columbia, holden in and for the county of Alexandria, stating, “ that at a court continued and held for the said district and county the 24th day of November 1830, the defendants prayed an appeal from the decree of the court pronounced in this cause to tile next Supreme Court of the United States which was granted, upon giving bond and security in the sum of two hundred dollars, to be approved by one of the judges of said court; and further certifying that the said bond and security had not been given, nor had a transcript of the record been ordered,” having been filed; and the said appellants having failed to lodge a transcript of the record in said cause with the clerk of this Court, agreeably to the rules of this Court: it is now here ordered and adjudged, that this cause be docketed, and that the said appeal be, and the same is hereby dismissed.