Kelly v. Kershaw
Kelly v. Kershaw
Opinion of the Court
This is a motion to dismiss an appeal from a j udgment and to affirm the judgment.
The ground of the motion is that on an appeal from an order denying a motion for a new trial, the entire record in the action was brought to this court, and the subject matter of the present appeal was fully before this court and subject to its consideration and determination, and that the present appeal is frivolous and for delay merely.
When this motion was filed in this court, there had been no decision in this court upon the appeal from the order denying the motion for a new trial.
Our statute expressly authorizes appeals to be taken from both the judgment and the order denying the motion for a new trial.
Laws of 1884, p. 303, sec. 828.
If we should hold the appeal from the judgment to be invalid, we negative the statute or ignore it. Its validity is not in question, and we are not authorized to negative it or ignore it. If the argument that because the whole record was before the court for consideration in the appeal from the order denying the motion for a new trial, this appeal from the judgment should be dismissed, be held
Tbe argument against our entertaining an appeal from tbe judgment wben there bad been an appeal from the order denying tbe motion for a new trial, might be of weight in regard to tbe propriety of this court bearing a second argument of tbe same points on different appeals in tbe same case, but it certainly could not go further.
Tbe motion to dismiss tbe appeal and affirm tbe judgment, is overruled.
Reference
- Full Case Name
- JOHN J. KELLY and Another v. ANDREW J. KERSHAW and Wife
- Status
- Published