Sharpe v. Huggins
Sharpe v. Huggins
Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the Court was delivered by
The appeal is from an order of the Circuit Court which opened a judgment upon the ground of excusable neglect as is provided by section 225 of the Code of Procedure.
*41 The first motion was made, as is the instant action, on grounds of excusable neglect; and the Circuit Court denied the first motion for the reason that the neglect was not excusable, and this Court on the authority of Gales v. Poe, 107 S. C. 483, 93 S. E. 189, affirmed that order. It is now said, however, that this Court affirmed that order for other reasons than that assigned by the Circuit Court, but that is not correct; the.order was affirmed On the authority of Gales v. Poe, 107 S. C. 483, 93 S. E. 189, and that case arose under section 225, and the Court there denied the motion because, the neglect was not excusable.
Therefore the matters now mooted were raised on a prior motion of identical character, and were there adjudged against the movant; that ends the controversy.
The order below is reversed, and the motion is dismissed.
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- 1. Courts — Former Decision on Motion to Open Judgment Law or Case. — Where defendant’s original motion to open a judgment for excusable neglect was denied by the trial Court and the judgment affirmed, such decision is the law of the case, and is conclusive against a second motion to open the judgment on the ground of the same excusable neglect. 2. Judgment — All Evidence Should Be Presented on Original Motion to Open Judgment por Excusable Neglect. — On the original motion to open judgment for excusable neglect, all the evidence should be presented, and after denial of the first motion a second on the same ground cannot be granted on the theory that different evidence was presented.