Title: McIntosh v. MONROE
Citation: 111 N.E.2d 658, 232 Ind. 60
Docket Number: 28,905
State: Indiana
Issuer: Indiana Supreme Court
Date: April 15, 1953

232 Ind. 60 (1953)
111 N.E.2d 658
McINTOSH
v.
MONROE ET AL.
No. 28,905.

Supreme Court of Indiana.
Filed April 15, 1953.
*61 Ramon A. Perry and Dalton C. McAlister, both of Fort Wayne, for appellant.
Winslow VanHorne, of Auburn, for appellees.
GILKISON, J.
Appellees filed their complaint in the DeKalb Circuit Court to enjoin appellant from engaging in the sale of alcoholic beverages at his place of business in St. Joe, Indiana. The cause was sent to the Steuben Circuit Court on change of venue, where it was tried by the court and thereafter, on January 6, 1951, the court rendered its finding and judgment as follows:
The record further discloses data as follows:
From the record as noted above it appears conclusively that a judgment in this cause was rendered on January 6, 1951 and defendant's motion for new trial was overruled on April 3, 1951. At that time the judgment *63 became final, subject only to the right of appeal by the defendant. See collection of authorities in Todd v. State (1951), 229 Ind. 664, 690 et seq., 101 N.E.2d 45. It has been correctly stated that:
Our court has stated the rule thus:
Since the judgment rendered on January 6, 1951, and upon which defendant's motion for new trial was overruled on April 3, 1951 became a final judgment, the trial court was without jurisdiction on January 2nd, 1952, even with the consent of the parties to set aside its action in overruling the motion for new trial on April 3, 1951, to reinstate the judgment and again overrule the motion for new trial, and to grant defendant ninety days time within which to perfect his appeal. This action by the trial court is null and void. The judgment stands as rendered on January 6, 1951, upon which the motion for new trial was overruled on April 3, 1951.
Under our Rule 2-2 the assignment of errors and transcript of the record must be filed in the office of *64 the Clerk of the Supreme Court within ninety days from the date of the judgment or the ruling on the motion for new trial. Appellant has made no effort to obtain an extension of time within which to file his transcript and assignment of errors as provided for in this rule, and there is no claim that he was under legal disability at the time the judgment was rendered. The record shows that the transcript and assignment of errors were filed with the Clerk of this court on March 27, 1952 some 358 days after the motion for new trial was lawfully overruled. The void action of the trial court noted could not and did not affect the judgment rendered or toll the time within which to perfect the appeal.
For the reasons noted it is ordered that the appeal be, and the same is, hereby dismissed.
NOTE.  Reported in 111 N.E.2d 658.