Garvin v. Pettee
Garvin v. Pettee
Opinion of the Court
This action was instituted to determine conflicting claims Io certain shares of bank stock, to compel defendant bank to transfer such stock on its books to the plaintiff, and to restrain the transfer thereof to the defendant Pettee, or any other person. On December 6, 1899, after a trial, the following judgment was entered: “Now, on motion of Horner & Stewart, attorneys for said defendant P. A. Pettee, ib is by the court ordered, adjudged, and decreed that this action be, and the same is hereby, dismissed, and that all orders of injunction made and issued out of this case be, and the same are hereby, vacated and set aside in all things. And it is further ordered, adjudged, and decreed that the defendant P. A. Pettee is the owner of the three shares of stock, and of* the certain certificate of stock numbered 102, representing three shares of stock of the Stock Growers’ Bank of Port Pierre, Stanley county, South Dakota. It is further ordered, adjudged, and decreed that the defendant P. A. Pettee do have and recover of the plaintiff, Prank L Garvin, the sum of forty and 30-100 dollars for his costs and disbursements in this action, to be hereinafter taxed and inserted herein by the clerk of this court.” On the same day the following order was entered: “Ordered, that the injunction order herein shall remain in full force and effect on the executing and filing by the plaintiff of a bond in the sum of three hundred dollars within three days hereof, during pendency of appeal.” On December 9, 1899, an appeal was taken and perfected from the order dissolving the temporary injunction. No further steps having been taken to prosecute such appeal, respondent Pettee noticed a motion -for hearing April 20, 1900, for an order dismissing the same. On that day appellant appeared, and filed the following objections to the motion to dis
The first objection is without merit. Respondent’s notice distinctly states when, where, and in what court he will move to dismiss. That the cause is not upon the present term calendar is a reason why the appeal should be dismissed, rather than an objection to the consideration of respondent’s motion.
The other objections involve the merits of the motion to dismiss. It appears that a restraining order or temporary injunction was issued when the action was commenced. At the conclusion of a trial upon the merits an order was made dissolving the temporary injunction. Tnis was, in effect, a refusal to continue such injunction peuding the preparation and prosecution of an appeal from the judgment upon the merits. In order to prevent any change in the status of the property during the pendency of an appeal from the judgment, it was necessary to take and perfect an appeal from the order vacat
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- 1. A notico that a motion to dismiss an appeal will be made in the supreme court at a time and pface stated is sufficient to entitle the moving' party-to a hearing-, although the motion is not entitled as being made in this court. 2. A motion to dismiss an appeal may be made in the supreme court before the cause appears upon the calendar. 3. Where an appeal is taken from an order dissolving' a temporary injunction, under Comp. Laws, £ 5228, and no further steps are taken to prosecute the appeal for four months, nor any excuse shown why the cause is not prepared for argument, the appeal will be dismissed on motion of appellee.