Case Name: Railway Co. v. Bailey
Court: Supreme Court of Ohio
Jurisdiction: Ohio
Decision Date: 1883-01
Citations: 39 Ohio St. 170
Docket Number: 
Parties: Railway Co. v. Bailey.
Judges: 
Reporter: Ohio State Reports, New Service
Volume: 39
Pages: 170–172

Head Matter:
Railway Co. v. Bailey.
Where an order of the probate court appropriating land for the road-bed of a railroad company is reversed in the court of common pleas, under Rev. Stat. §§ 0437, 0438, the court retaining “ the cause for trial and final judgment as in other cases,” error will not lie to such judgment of reversal.
Motion for leave to file petition in error.
Hutchins, Evans c& Dawson, in support of the motion.
The district court had jurisdiction to reverse the judgment of the court of common pleas, and the cases relating to reversal of the judgment of a justice of the peace have no application. Rev. Stats. §§ 6437, 6438 ; Reed v. De Wolf, Wright, 418; Herf v. Shulz, 10 Ohio, 263 ; Kelley v. Hunter, 12 Ohio, 219; 3 Chase, 1687, 1750; Swan’s C. S. 67S; Rev. Stat. § 6707, 6709; Swan’s C. S. 516 ; Rev. Stat. § 6733 ; Railroad Co. v. Sloan, 31 Ohio St. 1; Watson v. Sullivan, 5 Ohio St. 42; King v. King, 38 Ohio St. 370; Neil v. Neil, 38 Ohio St. 558 ; Rev. Stat. § 6726; Schaeffer v. Marianthal, 17 Ohio St. 183; Craig v. Chambers, 17 Ohio St. 253; Hammond v. Hammond, 21 Ohio St. 620; Dean v. King, 2 Ohio St. 134; Woolen Mills v. Titus, 35 Ohio St. 258; Texas B. Ass. v. Aurora Ins. Co., 34 Ohio St. 291; Collins v. Davis, 33 Ohio St. 567; Andrew v. Youngstown, 35 Ohio St. 268; Rev. Stat. § 6710, amended 80 Ohio L. 169 ; Code of 1853, § 512.
Harper c&. Richards, contra.
Cited and relied on the same cases and statutory permission, and also relied on the folloiving : Bridwell v. Barcroft, 4 W. L. Mo. 617, 622; Holbrook v. Connelly, Hobbs v. Beckwith, Longworth v. Sturges, 6 Ohio St. 199, 252, 143; Const, art. 13, § 5 ; Yeoman v. Zasley, 36 Ohio St. 416.

Opinion:
Okey, J.
By proceedings in the probate court of Scioto county, commenced in September, 1882, under Rev. Stat. § 6414-6453, the Cincinnati and Eastern Eailway Co., an Ohio corporation, condemned lands of O. W. Bailey, in that county, for its road-bed, paid into court $2000, the condemnation money, and took and still holds possession of the property. On petition in error by Bailey, the court of common pleas reversed the judgment, so far as it may be reversed in view of the rule stated in Wagner v. Railway Co., 38 Ohio St. 32. To reverse the judgment of reversal, the company prosecuted error in the district court; but that court dismissed the petition for want of jurisdiction, and the company now asks leave to file in this court a petition in error to reverse the order of dismissal.
The district court did not err. The appellate jurisdiction of the court of this state is statutory. The district court has power to reverse judgments and final orders (Eev. Stat. § 6707, 6709), but there had been ho such adjudication in the common pleas as afforded ground for a proceeding in error to that court. The common pleas was vested with power to reverse the judgment or order of the probate court (Rev. Stat. § 6437), but was required on reversal "to retain the cause for trial and final judgment, as in other cases," and, moreover, such trial must be had at the term of reversal, unless for good cause a continuance is granted. Rev. Stat. § 6438. Consequently, the rule in case of reversal of the judgment of a justice of the peace applied, and not the rule where the district court reverses the judgment of the court of common pleas and remands the cause for a new trial. This distinction is stated in Schaeffer v. Marienthal, 17 Ohio St. 183, which was of the latter class. Even the rule asserted in that case has been changed (80 Ohio L. 169), so that the statutory provisions are now harmonious in denying the right to review a judgment of reversal, where the cause is again for hearing on the merits. Lewis v. Eustler, 4 Ohio St. 354, was under a different statute, and the objection which prevails in this case was not presented or considered in that case.
Motion overruled.