Case ID: miss_17/html/0360-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "Per Curiam.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Wilson A. Coppage vs. George O. Hall.
    Since the passage of the law which provides for the keeping of three dockets, one for each judicial district of the high court of errors and appeals, cases cannot be submitted as delay cases unless they are on the docket of the district under consideration by the court.
    The rale which authorizes the submission of cases on the suggestion in writing that they are brought up for delay, out of their regular order, was adopted before the law creating a docket for each district; and must now be limited to the causes on the docket of each particular district, when that district is before the court.
    The case of Wilson A. Coppage v. George O. Hall, pending in this court on the docket of the third judicial district, on writ of error from the circuit court of Yalabusha county, was submitted to the court, on a suggestion in writing that there was no error in the record, and that the cause had been brought up for delay. The docket of the first judicial district was before the court when the cause was submitted.
   Per Curiam.

This case was submitted on a suggestion that if was brought up for delay. It is from the county of Yalabu-sha, and of course is on the docket of the third district. That provision in our rules, which authorizes the submission of delay cases at any time, cannot be so applied as to reach this case, since the passage of the law which provides for the keeping of three dockets. The rule declares that the docket will be taken up and causes disposed of in their order, unless it be suggested in writing that certain causes have been brought up for delay, &c. The rule was intended to apply to a different state of things. It only authorized the taking up cases on a suggestion of delay, when the court could take up the docket. As we cannot take up the dockets of the several districts out of their order, we must construe the rule as only authorizing cases to be taken up on suggestion that they were brought up for delay, when the docket of the district to which they belong shall be taken up. And as the docket of the first district is now under consideration, the case must be remanded, to await the call of the docket of the third district.