Court Opinion

ID: 6413700
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2022-06-25 11:54:34.105636+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T15:51:27.776986
License: Public Domain

Bigelow, C. J.
By Gen. Sts. c. 115, § 12, it is enacted that the entry in this court of any questions arising upon appeal, by bill of exceptions, reserved case or otherwise, shall not transfer the case to this court, but only the question to be determined. Under this provision, the present action, after the appeal was taken from the decision of the question raised by the demurrer, was still pending in the superior court, and subject to its entire control and jurisdiction in. all matters not relating to or directly affecting the question raised by the appeal. It was, therefore, competent for that court to pass all orders and decrees which might in the due course of proceeding become necessary or proper in the prosecution or maintenance of the action there, notwithstanding the pendency of an appeal in this court on a question of law which had previously arisen in the progress of the cause. The only restriction on the power of the court where a case is pending is, that it should not undertake to dispose of a case finally by adjudicating on questions which have been previously raised and are pending here on an appeal or by exceptions or otherwise. In all other respects, their authority *241to dispose of the case is plenary, if properly exercised, notwithstanding the effect of such disposition may be to terminate all further proceedings on the question pending in this court.
In the case at bar, the nonsuit was duly entered for a cause which properly came within the cognizance of the court below, and not in any degree involved in the question pending on the appeal. The case having come to an end, all further proceedings on the appeal are impossible. There is nothing left upon which any decision of the question raised by the appeal can operate.

Appeal dismissed.