Court Opinion

ID: 9714149
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-26 05:32:12.146234+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T18:23:23.928561
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On Application eor Rehearing.
Black, J.
Appellant moves for rehearing and calls attention to an order of this Court, entered November 7, 1961. The order reads as follows:
*693“In this cause a motion is filed by the garnishee defendant to dismiss the appeal heretofore taken herein by plaintiff, and an answer thereto and an application for leave to take delayed appeal having been filed by plaintiff, and an answer thereto having been filed by the garnishee defendant, and due consideration of the respective motions having been had by the Court, it is ordered that the motion to dismiss the appeal heretofore taken herein by plaintiff be and the same is hereby denied, and the application for leave to take a delayed appeal is hereby granted.”
The aforesaid order was not brought to attention of the Court in the briefs of the parties; nor upon oral argument. The fact and effect of such order was not discovered by the writer, as by him should have been done, until the present application was filed. Thus 4 members of the Court stood for dismissal of the appeal, and 4 other members stood for reversal of the circuit court’s order. See 371 Mieh 689, 692.
Had it not been for the apparent fact that the cause was improperly before the Court, all of our membership would have signed Justice Smith’s opinion for reversal. Accordingly, and by unanimous decision of the presently seated Justices, appellant’s motion for rehearing is denied and the circuit court’s judgment is reversed, with costs to appellant.
Kavanagh, C. J., and Kelly and Souris, JJ., concurred with Black, J.
Adams, J., took no part in this ease on application for rehearing.