Court Opinion

ID: 9575870
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-21 21:18:07.955425+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T12:48:15.992305
License: Public Domain

RAPP, Presiding Judge,
dissenting
The simple issue here presented is the correctness of the trial court’s decision in its ruling on the defendants’ motion to dismiss. The defendants’ “brief in chief” at ' page three states the essence of the matter here appealed. There were, after the plaintiffs’ voluntary dismissal of the alleged assault and battery, no new allegations in the plaintiffs’ third amended petition. The third amended petition followed two earlier petitions voluntarily dismissed by the plaintiffs as failing to state causes of action against the defendants. Thus, the trial court had no choice but to sustain the defendants’ motion, particularly in light of the plaintiffs’ prior dismissals. While the matter here presented is tragic I do not see how we may breathe life into a matter not properly presented to the trial court.
I would affirm the trial court.