Court Opinion

ID: 9824895
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Date Created: 2023-09-01 11:38:15.107179+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T11:37:37.722883
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*787On Rehearing.
In this case it will be remembered that plaintiffs in error on November 27, 1909, filed, after judgment had been entered against them, first, a motion for a new trial, as a matter of right; second, the usual statutory motion for new trial; and third, a motion to vacate the judgment, for that the court had no jurisdiction over the subject-matter of the controversy. These various motions were not passed upon until January 29, 1910, when each was overruled by the court.
In the order of dismissal entered in this case on November 18, 1912, it was held that under the Arkansas practice in force in the Indian Territory at the time this action was commenced no motion for a new trial was necessary in equity cases, and that, therefore, the case-made should have been made and served within three days from the date of entry of the judgment or within the extension of time allowed by the court, and that the filing of an unnecessary motion would not stay the running of the time in which to prepare and file the appeal. Counsel for plaintiffs in error now insist that they did not appeal from the judgment entered on November 26, 1909, but from the order of the court entered January 29, 1910, denying the motion to vacate said judgment, and that no motion for a new trial was necessary to preserve the alleged errors of the court denying the motion to vacate, inasmuch as the evidence adduced at the hearing thereon was embodied in an agreed statement of fact.
Without withdrawing our former opinion, but in addition thereto, we hold that the district court of Muskogee county by virtue of the provisions of the Enabling Act, the Constitution, and the statutes had full and complete jurisdiction of the subject-matter of the controversy and the persons of the parties, and, inasmuch as the same result would be reached by the consideration of this phase of the case as was reached in our former opinion, we hold that no error was committed in overruling the motion to vacate, and therefore the petition for rehearing should he denied.
By the Court: It is so ordered.