Court Opinion

ID: 6562410
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2022-07-20 19:16:43.312134+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T15:56:35.446934
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Me. Justice Elliott
delivered the opinion of the court.
The writ of error was improperly sued out in this cause. The judgment of the district court was in substance that relator’s action be dismissed, and that defendant go hence and recover his costs, etc. It was not a money judgment in any amount exclusive of costs, nor was it a judgment in replevin, nor did the matter in controversy relate to a franchise or a freehold. It is not indicated by the pleadings, by the assignments of error, nor otherwise, that the construction of any provision of the constitution of the State or of the United States is necessary to the determination of the case, nor is it the judgment of a county court that is sought to be reviewed. Session Laws 1891, p. 118.
*88In Londoner v. The People ex rel. Barton, 15 Colo. 246, this court, construing similar language in section 388 of the Code, held that there is a distinction between a franchise and a public office, and that no appeal lies to this court from a judgment of ouster rendered by a district court in an action for the usurpation of a public office. It is true, the LpndonerBarton Case was afterwards reviewed by this court upon writ of error. See 15 Colo. 557. But that was before the jurisdiction of this court by writ of error, as well as by appeal, was restricted by the act creating the court of appeals. People v. Richmond et al., 16 Colo. 274.
Under the statute and the decisions above cited, it is clear that this court is without jurisdiction by writ of error or appeal to review this cause. The writ is accordingly dismissed without prejudice.

Dismissed.