Rudolph v. Herman
Rudolph v. Herman
Opinion of the Court
This is an application to allow a reargument. The case has been twice appealed. In 50 N. W. 833 we affirmed the judgment of the circuit court dismissing the appeal from justice court on the ground that no proper undertaking had been served and filed. The action was in forcible entry and detainer. While I thought, and so said in an addendum, that the opinion went a little too far in stating that the appellate court acquired no jurisdiction of the appeal until a proper untaking was served and filed, it was the opinion of this court that the circuit court acquired no jurisdiction of the appeal from the justice court upon the undertaking that was served and filed, leaving, therefore, nothing for the circuit court to do upon such a record but to dismiss the appeal from such court. Upon the return of the case to the circuit court, with our j udgment affirming its dismissal, appellant, by
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- 1. Where a court has entered a judgment dismissing an appeal from justice court for want of a proper undertaking, it is not error to refuse an application to amend such undertaking or substitute abetter one, so long as such judgment of dismissal remains in force. 2. In such case, where the only question presented to the court was as to the allowance of such amended or substituted undertaking, it was not error to refuse to allow the same; althoug'h the motion contained a prayer for general relief, under which the court might have vacated the judgment of dismissal, if it had been asked to do so. 3. Until the vacation of the judgment was asked for, the court was not required to vacate it, and until vacated it was res judicata, and a bar to the application to amend the undertaking. (Syllabus by the court.