Case Name: Lines v. Benner
Court: Supreme Court of Indiana
Jurisdiction: Indiana
Decision Date: 1875-11
Citations: 52 Ind. 195
Docket Number: 
Parties: Lines v. Benner.
Judges: 
Reporter: Indiana Reports
Volume: 52
Pages: 195–196

Head Matter:
Lines v. Benner.
Practice.—Docketing of Causes.—Where a cause had been docketed by the clerk for a certain day of the term, and it was called for trial on an earlier day, the plaintiff not being ready for trial on that day, having caused his witnesses to be subpoenaed for the day to which the cause was set on the docket, it was error to thereupon dismiss the action over the plaintiff’s objection ; and it was not necessary, in order to present such ruling to the Supreme Court, that any opportunity should be offered to the lower court, by motion or otherwise, to review or reconsider its action.
Erom the Grant Circuit Court.
A. Steele and JR. T. St. John, for appellant.
JR. W. Daily and VanDevanter & McDowell, for appellee.

Opinion:
Downey, J.
This cause was set on the docket of the circuit court for the sixth day of the term by the clerk, and the plaintiff had caused his witnesses to be summoned for that day. The defendant had, for some reason not shown, summoned his witnesses for the fifth day of the term. In calling th'e docket for the trial of causes, on the fifth day of the term, the court called this cause, and, the plaintiff not being ready to proceed with the trial, the court, over his •objection, dismissed the action. Proper exception was taken to the ruling, and it is assigned as error.
Counsel for the appellee think the question is not properly presented, because there was no opportunity offered to the court, by motion or otherwise, to review or reconsider its action. ¥e think no such motion, etc., was necessary. No motion for a new trial was necessary. There was no trial. No motion to set aside a default was necessary. There was no default. The question is properly presented. The ruling of the court can not be sustained. 2 G. & H. 216, secs. 359, 360; Norris v. Dodge's Adm'r, 23 Ind. 190.
The judgment is reversed, with costs, and the cause remanded, with instructions to set aside the order dismissing the action.