City of Topeka v. Pleasant Smelser
City of Topeka v. Pleasant Smelser
Opinion of the Court
The only question presented for our consideration by the brief of the plaintiff in error is, that the court erred in proceeding with the trial of this cause in the court below while the petition in error was pending in the Supreme Court to reverse the order sustaining the motion for a new trial after the first trial of this cause.
On the part of the defendant in error, we are met by an objection to a review of the action of the court in overruling the motion for a continuance because, as it is claimed, that error is not sufficiently alleged in the petition in error.
The seventh assignment of error in the petition is the overruling of the motion for a new trial, and the second ground alleged in the motion for a new trial is : "In proceeding with the trial of said cause over the objection of the defendant, and while said case was pending and undetermined in the Supreme Court, as set forth in said defendant’s motion for a continuance.” We think this is sufficient.
This leaves for our consideration only the simple question as to whether the court committed reversible error in not granting the continuance asked for.
In that case, a judgment in a different action was pleaded as res judicata between some of the same parties, and about the title to the same property. A supersedeas bond had been given, and an order staying proceedings in the lower court obtained. In this case, it is a proceeding in error in the same case that was so pleaded, and no bond had been given nor order staying proceedings obtained.
In C. B. U. P. Rld. Co. v. Andreius, Adm'r, (34 Kan. 563,) it was held that, “the institution of a proceeding in error in the Supreme Court does not of itself operate to suspend further proceedings in the case in the court below.”
Paragraph 1930, General Statutes of 1889, gives the Supreme Court full power to make an order suspending further proceedings in the court below on such
No error appearing in the record, the judgment of the court below is affirmed.
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- 1. Appellate Procedure — refusing new trial assigned as error, raises for review questions ra,ised by motion for new trial. Where one of the errors alleged to have been committed by the court below is the overruling of a motion for a new trial, and one of the grounds upon which a new trial was asked was the “ proceeding with the trial of said cause over the objection of the defendant, and while said case was pending and undetermined in the Supreme Court, as set forth in said defendant’s motion for a continuance,” the question whether the case should have been continued is sufficiently raised to authorize its review by this court. 2, -mere pendency of error to reverse order granting new tried does not give right to continuance below. The institution of a proceeding in error in the Supreme Court does not, of itself, operate to suspend further proceedings in the case in the court below; nor does it entitle the plaintiff in error, as a matter of right, to a continuance in the court below until said proceeding in error is disposed of.