Title: City of Ft. Wayne v. New Haven
Citation: 257 Ind. 4, 268 N.E.2d 735
Docket Number: N/A
State: Indiana
Issuer: Indiana Supreme Court
Date: April 23, 1971

257 Ind. 4 (1971)
268 N.E.2d 735
CITY OF FORT WAYNE
v.
BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF TOWN OF NEW HAVEN ET AL.
No. 169A17.

Supreme Court of Indiana.
Filed April 23, 1971.
Rehearing denied June 21, 1971.
James Robert Arnold, Attorney for City of Ft. Wayne, Robert E. Meyers, Associate Attorney for City of Fort Wayne, Newkirk, Keane, Kowalczyk &amp; Leal, of Fort Wayne, for appellant.
Arthur H. Fruechtenicht, Hunt, Suedhoff, Borror &amp; Eilbacher, for Board of Trustees of Town of New Haven and City of New Haven, both of Ft. Wayne, for appellees.
HUNTER, J.
Petitioners (appellees) are before this court on a petition to transfer stemming from an unpublished order of the Appellate Court issued on September 25, 1970, overruling appellees' alternative motion to affirm or dismiss appellant's appeal. Since the order is unpublished, we will take the liberty of setting it out verbatim:
There has been no disposition of the case on its merits and the only question presented for our review is the propriety of the Appellate Court's overruling of appellees' above mentioned alternative motion to affirm or dismiss.
If we are to preserve the operating scheme of appellate practice established by our appellate rules of procedure, it is clear that appellees' petition to transfer must be dismissed. Implicit in Rule A.P. 11(B) is the requirement that the Appellate Court decide the case with a written opinion before transfer may be sought. The order above referred to cannot be considered a final disposition of the cause in any sense of the word but was merely collateral and procedurally incidental to an eventual final decision.
Appellees' petition to transfer, being premature in nature, is therefore dismissed. The matter is remanded to the Appellate Court for further briefing and decision on the merits.
Petition to transfer dismissed.
Arterburn, C.J., DeBruler, Givan and Prentice, JJ., concur.
NOTE.  Reported in 268 N.E.2d 735.