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Rule 354. Cost Bond (1946)

TEXT

The appellant shall execute a bond to be approved by the clerk, payable to the appellee in a sum at least double the probable amount of the costs of the court below, the Court of Civil Appeals, and the Supreme Court, to be fixed by the clerk, less such sums as may have been paid to such clerk by appellant on such costs, conditioned that such appellant shall prosecute his appeal or writ of error with effect, and shall pay all the costs which have accrued in the court below, and which may accrue in the Court of Civil Appeals and the Supreme Court. Each surety on the bond shall give his post-office address.

Original note: Source: Art. 2265, with minor textual change.

Amended by order of Oct. 10, 1945,eff. Feb. 1, 1946: The last sentence has been added.

Note amended by order of April 12, 1962, eff. Sept. 1, 1962: Sentence added requiring such surety on the bond to give his post office address.