Court Opinion

ID: 9624720
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-22 07:15:01.81306+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T18:05:53.547386
License: Public Domain

Jordan, Presiding Judge,
concurring specially. • In my opinion the result here reached is required under the precedents in this State, applying statutory provisions substantially the same as the present statutes. The present practice requirements were modeled on the federal rules, but subsection d of CPA § 41, in requiring that "the plaintiff shall first pay the court costs of the action previously dismissed” is consonant with the statement appearing in Code Ann. § 3-508, which has long been the law of this State, that upon dismissal "the plaintiff may recommence his suit on payment of costs.” The federal Rule 41 (d) merely provides *202that where a plaintiff has once dismissed "the court may make such order for the payment of costs of the action previously dismissed as it may deem proper and may stay the proceedings in the action until the plaintiff has complied with the order.” See V Moore’s Federal Practice (2d Ed.), §41.16, p. 1193. In my opinion the federal rule represents an approach to the matter which would aid in expediting the disposition of a claim on the merits, whereas the present rule in effect in this State may indicate undue emphasis on what may have been a necessity in a bygone era, a fee system strictly enforced to provide compensation to court officials.
Hall, P. J., and Deen, J., join this special concurrence.