Court Opinion

ID: 9570835
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-21 20:26:49.680309+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T12:18:36.845103
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On Petition for Rehearing.
TEIGEN, Judge.
The appellant, through a petition for rehearing, asks for a clarification of the decision or that a rehearing be granted with a fifth judge called in to participate. He premises his request on the basis that the principal opinion signed by two judges does not rule that “terms and conditions as the court deems proper” may not include an allowance for attorney’s fees; whereas, two judges by their special concurrence said the trial court “cannot impose the payment of attorneys fees as one of the conditions on which such voluntary dismissal will be permitted.” For this reason alone he asks that the fifth judge, who sat on the arguments but did not participate in the decision because he was ill at the time the decision was rendered, sign the principal opinion or the special concurrence so the lower court may know how to proceed, or that a rehearing be granted at which another judge be called in to sit.
The matter having again been considered by the whole court, and Judge Burke, who was unable to participate at the time the original decision was released because of illness, having now fully considered the matter, joins in the principal opinion and adds his signature thereto. For this reason, the rehearing is denied.
KNUDSON, BURKE, C. J., and STRUTZ, and ERICKSTAD, JJ., concur.