Chap. 136.—An ACT conferring jurisdiction upon the supreme court of
appeals, or the judges thereof, in vacation, to consider eertain petitions
for appeals and writs of error or supersedeas and to allow the same.

[S B 69]
Approved March 29, 1923.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That
jurisdiction is hereby conferred upon the supreme court of
appeals, or any one of the judges thereof, in vacation, to con-
sider petitions for appeals from, or writs of error or supersedeas
to, all decrees, judgments, and orders which could have been
considered by it or him during the period commencing on the
eighteenth day of June, nineteen hundred and twenty-two and
ending on the eighteenth day of December, nineteen hundred
and twenty-two, if the acts of the general assembly approved
February seventeenth, nineteen hundred and twenty-two, and
March fourteenth, nineteen hundred and twenty-two, amend-
ing sections sixty-three hundred and thirty-seven and sixty-
three hundred and fifty-five, respectively, of the Code of Vir-
ginia, had not been enacted.

The court or judge, to whom a petition is presented under
this act, if of opinion that the decision complained of is not
plainly right and ought to be reviewed, shall allow an appeal or
writ of error, aS under existing law, and in either case may
award a supersedeas to stay proceedings in whole or in part;
provided, that such petition be presented within six months
from the day on which this act takes effect.

2. Nothing in this act contained shall be construed as au-
thorizing such court or any judge thereof to allow an appeal
or writ of error or supersedeas in any case where a petition
therefor has been heretofore rejected for any cause other than
the expiration of the time limits prescribed by the acts afore-
said.

If it shall appear to the court, or the judge to whom such
petition is presented; or, if it shall appear to the court, upon a
hearing of the cause, that any person, whether a party to ori-
ginal preceedings or not, has paid money, conveyed real estate,
or has taken other action which would cause the granting of
such appeal or writ of errror to work a hardship on such person,
then in either case the petition shall be denied or the writ of
error or appeal dismissed.