Court Opinion

ID: 8071330
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2022-09-09 11:28:37.049909+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T16:38:14.885658
License: Public Domain

PER CURIAM.
When the plaintiff in this action rested his case, the defendant moved to dismiss the complaint, upon the ground that the plaintiff had failed to prove any negligence on the part of the defendant. The plaintiff thereupon conceded that he had failed to prove a cause of action against the defendant, and asked leave of the court to discontinue the same. This leave was refused by the court, and the complaint was dismissed, judgment absolute being rendered against the plaintiff, and in favor of the defendant, with costs.
Under section 248 of the municipal court act (Laws 1902, p. 1561, c. 580) it is provided that judgment that the action be dismissed with costs, without prejudice to a new action, shall be rendered in the following cases, among others: Subdivision 4. Where the plaintiff does not prove his cause of action.
The judgment herein should therefore be modified by providing that the complaint be dismissed, with costs, without prejudice to a new action, and, as thus modified, affirmed, without costs of this appeal.