Court Opinion

ID: 9530387
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-07 03:59:26.902023+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T13:28:05.927458
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Parker, C. J.
(concurring specially): I dissented from this court’s opinion in Gray v. Hercules Powder Co., 160 Kan. 767, 165 P. 2d 447, and, based on reasons stated in the dissenting opinion of former Justice Hoch, I still believe the majority of the court reached a wrong conclusion in that case. Even so, I must admit that, since pronouncement of the rule therein announced more than fifteen years have passed without the legislature having taken any steps to remedy what to me is a clear violation of the salutary and established rules of this court, i. e., (1) that the procedure for vacating judgments during the term at which they are rendered is not controlled by statute but is an inherent power within the court (see decisions cited in Justice Hoch’s dissent as reported in 160 Kan. 779, 780) and (2) that independent of the code of civil procedure a district court has jurisdiction of its judgments and orders during the term of court at which they are rendered (see Dimit v. Bradshaw, 186 Kan. 220, 350 P. 2d 131, and decisions there cited). Therefore, because I believe in the principle and doctrine of stare decisis and it must be conceded the decision in the instant case is based squarely upon what is said and held in Gray v. Hercules Powder Co., supra, I feel impelled, although it is with reluctance that I do so, to concur in the foregoing opinion.