Texas Building Ass'n No. 2 v. Aurora Fire & Marine Ins.
Texas Building Ass'n No. 2 v. Aurora Fire & Marine Ins.
Opinion of the Court
It is clear that the judgment of the district •court reversing the judgment of the court of common pleas, .and the order remanding the cause for further proceedings, •do not belong to the class or classes of judgments or orders, the execution of which may be stayed in the mode pro-i vided in section 15, chapter 1, title 4 of the act of May 14,
And section 4 of the same act provides that “ the supreme court or district court shall have power to remand its final decrees, judgments, or orders, in cases removed before them ■on appeal, to the court below, as the case may require, for the specific or general execution thereof, and may also remand causes which so come before them to the inferior ■courts for further proceedings therein.”
By the latter of these two sections, express power is conferred on the district court, and also upon this court, to remand equity causes to the court below for further proceedings ; and, by a fair and just construction of the provisions of the former, the same power is conferred upon the district •court in actions at law. Hence, when the mandate is received by the court to which the cause is remanded, it becomes its duty to carry into effect the judgment or order of the reviewing court. The performance of this duty, in cases where the cause is remanded for a new trial, consists in proceeding to trial and judgment; and the suspension of this action of the court, during the pendency of the petition in error, constitutes the stay of execution provided ' for. But power to stay execution of the judgment or order, .as provided by section 22, above quoted, is discretionary, to be exercised only on good cause shown by the party moving for the stay. See Pim v. Nicholson, 6 Ohio St. 176. Counsel for the plaintiff seem to assume that the mere pendency of the petition in error in this court, the hearing upon which may result in the reversal of the judgment of the district court, and in the affirmance of the judgment of the court of common pleas, is a sufficient .ground to stay further proceedings in the latter court, until the petition in error is disposed of. If this were so, the re.sult would be, in this class of cases, that, on the filing of the petition in error in the reviewing court, stay would be ordered, as of course, however clear and manifest it might be that the judgment of the district court was right.
The only caiise stated for the order staying proceedings
Motion overruled.
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