Case ID: mich_233/html/0283-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "McDonald, C. J.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

SCHROYER v. CHURCH.
    1. Appeal and Error — Extension of Time to Settle Bill of Exceptions — Jurisdiction Not Conferred by Stipulation.
    Where appellant, during the usual 20-day stay after entry of judgment, did not file the stenographer’s certificate and secure a further stay, the court, after expiration of said period, had no jurisdiction to enter an order settling the bill of exceptions, notwithstanding the parties stipulated that such order might be made.
    
    2. Costs — Party Misled by Stipulation Awarded Costs.
    Where appellee stipulated with appellant for extension of time in which to settle the bill of exceptions, and appellant by reason thereof incurred expense, the Supreme Court, on granting appellee’s motion to dismiss the writ of error for want of jurisdiction, will award costs of this court to appellant.
    
    Error to Montcalm; Hawley (Royal A.), J.
    Submitted October 14, 1925.
    (Docket No. 68.)
    Decided December 22, 1925.
    Assumpsit by Della E. SchroyeP against Frank P. Church for breach of a contract of sale. Judgment for plaintiff. Defendant brings error.
    Dismissed.
    
      Frank A. Miller (Griswold & Ganton, of counsel), for appellant.
    
      D. Hale Brake, for appellee.
    
      
      Appeal and Error, 4 C. J. §§ 1892, 1899;
    
    
      
      Costs, 15 C. J. § 636 (Anno).
    
   McDonald, C. J.

In an action for breach of contract the plaintiff recovered a verdict and judgment against the defendant for $716.25, in the circuit court for Montcalm county. Desiring to have the judgment reviewed by this court, the defendant took the usual stay of 20 days, but did not during that period file the stenographer’s certificate and secure a further stay of time in which to prepare and settle a bill of exceptions. After the 20-day period had expired the court had no jurisdiction to settle the bill of exceptions or to grant further time therefor, though the parties stipulated that such an order might be made. Walker v. Wayne Circuit Judge, 226 Mich. 393. When the briefs and record had been printed and filed in this court, plaintiff moved to dismiss. .The motion must prevail. We have no jurisdiction of the cause.

The writ of error is dismissed and the bill of exceptions stricken from the files. Under the circumstances the defendant will have his costs in this court.

Clark, Bird, Sharpe, Moore, Steere, Fellows, and Wiest, JJ., concurred.