Indiana Supreme Court, 1839

Bowers v. M'Nutt

Bowers v. M'Nutt
Indiana Supreme Court · Decided November 27, 1839
5 Blackf. 231; 1839 Ind. LEXIS 119

Bowers v. M'Nutt

Opinion of the Court

A JUSTICE of the peace rendered judgment again'st a defendant on the 30th of June, 1838. Two days afterwards, he granted the defendant a new trial unconditionally upon good cause shown. On the 21st of August, 1838, the day fixed for the new trial,, the justice set aside the order for a new trial, and affirmed his previous judgment..

Held, that by the granting of the new trial, the original judgment was set aside; that the subsequent judgment of affirmance on the 21st of August, 1838, must be viewed as a judgment of that date in favour of the plaintiff for the amount of the first judgment; and that, therefore, the time for taking an appeal should be reckoned from the date of the judgment last rendered. Yide Stat. 1831, p. 303, sec. 30.

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