Court Opinion

ID: 9834562
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Date Created: 2023-09-02 00:02:15.31327+00
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Petition for Rehearing.*
Thompson, J.
The petitioner has filed a petition for a rehearing. In the first paragraph of its petition it says: “The result of the decision of the Court in this case is, of necessity, that under G. L. 1697, an appeal from the judgment of a justice of the peace, if entered as prescribed by that section, will vacate the judgment and so vest in the county court jurisdiction of the whole cause de novo that the county court may effectively dismiss the cause, as distinguished merely from the appeal, even though the grounds of the action of the county court are the want of the justice to entertain the cause and enter judgment. If this decision is right, then it follows as of course that the petitioner did not prevail by the allowance of the motion to dismiss, and is not entitled to the relief prayed for. ’ ’
The construction of G. L. 1697, that a. perfected appeal from the judgment of a justice of the peace vests in the county court jurisdiction of the whole cause de novo, has been the settled law for too long a time to be questioned now.
*267The petitioner also argues that it is an absurdity to hold that a court has no jurisdiction of a cause, has the jurisdiction to dismiss the cause for want of jurisdiction and render judgment for the defendant. But jurisdiction to do this very thing is conferred upon the court by the provisions of G. L. 2037.

Petition denied. Let full entry go down.

 Opinion on petition for rehearing filed January- 22, 1931.