Court Opinion

ID: 9763845
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-29 02:57:58.312598+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T07:29:50.206735
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On Motion for Rehearing or to Transfer

PER CURIAM.
The opinion in this case was filed November 20, 1972. “Motions for rehearing . . . must be filed within 15 days after the opinion of the court shall be filed” (Rule 84.17), and applications of a party to transfer a cause to the Supreme Court “in which an opinion has been filed in a district of the Court of Appeals . . . shall be filed within 15 days of the date upon which the opinion is filed.” Rule 83.02. In computing the 15 days prescribed by Rules 83.02 and 84.17, we exclude the date the opinion was filed and include the 15th day thereafter, i. e., December 5, 1972, a Tuesday, because it is not “a Saturday, Sunday or a legal holiday.” Rule 44.01(a). Defendant s motion for rehearing or to transfer was received and filed by the clerk of this court on December 6, 1972, or the 16th day after our opinion was filed. The 15-day limitation for filing defendant’s motion “is cast in mandatory language, and neither counsel nor the court is at liberty to ignore or wink at that limitation. The order of this court should be and is that [defendant’s] purported motion for rehearing or to transfer be stricken.” Hood v. M. F. A. Mutual Insurance Company, Mo.App., 379 S.W.2d 806, 813(13); Hoevelman v. Reorganized Sch. D. R2 of Crawford County, Mo.App., 452 S.W.2d 298, 303(9).