Johnson v. Johnson
Johnson v. Johnson
Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered by
An attack is made on the sufficiency of the record to give the court jurisdiction to review this case. The suggestion is that the recoi'd does not show that the case was made and served in time. Judgment was rendered on the 6th of June, 1901, and a motion for a.new trial was filed within
By section 5034, General Statutes of 1901, a party desiring to make a case is given three days in which to serve the same on the opposite party. If he has longer time than this, it must be given to him by the court or judge, under the provisions of section 5035. After the original or extended time shall have elapsed without the case's having been served, the trial court or judge has no jurisdiction thereafter to extend it, or to settle and sign the case. It being essential to the jurisdiction of this court that the case be properly made and served within the time given by the statute or by the trial court or judge, it is necessary that the fact that it was so made and served affirmatively appear.
When a court of general cognizance once obtains jurisdiction of a given matter, all permissible presumptions will be indulged in as to the regularity and propriety of its acts therein. So we have held that, when a district court assumes to take up and pass upon a motion for a new trial, we will presume that it did so •rightfully, although it is not shown that the motion was filed in time. But the right to settle and sign a case-made, involving, as it does, the timely service of the same, is a special matter and not one naturally
The case will be dismissed.
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