Court Opinion

ID: 9679191
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-24 06:43:44.086397+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T18:17:11.183292
License: Public Domain

Carter, J.,
dissenting.
The dismissal of the appeal in this case deprives, this court of any jurisdiction. This leaves the case wholly in the district court. The purported holdings of this court to the effect that “The view we take is that when the appellant filed his dismissal it ended the litigation, the ease was no longer pending, and the order of the court reinstating the case was a nullity” is purely gratuitous, beyond the power of this court to make, and an unwarranted interference with the exclusive jurisdiction of the district court. The reinstatement of the action in the district court may have been erroneous but it was not a nullity. It is indeed an anomaly that this court can divest itself of the jurisdiction attempted to be lodged here by a purported appeal and at that same time decide issues pending in the district court. I submit that semantical acrobatics cannot serve to justify the action taken on the motion to dismiss the appeal.