Case ID: ind_9/html/0179-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "\n      Per Curiam.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Long v. Thwing.
    After judgment, the plaintiff cannot he allowed to suffer non-suit.
    APPEAL from the La Porte Circuit Court.
    
      Monday, June 1.
   Per Curiam.

“The Court, after hearing the evidence in the cause, find for the defendant. It is, therefore, considered that the defendant recover of the plaintiff his costs expended. Whereupon, the plaintiff moves the Court for leave to suffer a non-suit, which motion was resisted by the defendant, but sustained by the Court, and a non-suit granted — to which opinion of the Court in sustaining said motion and granting the non-suit, the defendant excepts.”

This ruling is plainly erroneous. After the finding and judgment, the plaintiff should not have been allowed to suffer a non-suit. See Doughty v. Elliott, 8 Blackf. 405.

J. B. Niles and A. L. Osborn, for the appellant.

The judgment is reversed with costs. Cause remanded with directions to the Circuit Court to render judgment for the defendant below.