Court Opinion

ID: 9743052
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Date Created: 2023-08-26 21:24:44.863939+00
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ON PETITION FOR REHEARING
Lowdermilk, J.
On April 5,1977, this court, in an unpublished opinion, determined that the trial court had applied an erroneous standard to its fourth finding of fact thereby rendering its judgment clearly *709erroneous. We thereupon remanded this case to the trial court, specifically retaining jurisdiction, with instructions to conduct all necessary further proceedings in accordance with our opinion, and within 60 days of the hand down date to correct and amend its Findings of Fact, Conclusions of Law and Judgment.
Pursuant to this court’s order, the trial court filed with this court, on April 18,1977, Amended Findings of Fact, Conclusions of Law and Judgment.
Thereafter, on July 26,1977, after carefully reviewing the Amended Findings of Fact, Conclusions of Law and Judgment submitted by the trial court, we were of the opinion that the judgment of the trial court was not clearly erroneous and should be affirmed.
In the interim between April 18,1977 and July 26,1977, petitioner-appellant, on June 17, 1977, filed a second motion to correct errors.
Petitioner contends that the opinion of this court handed down on July 26,1977, was premature because the trial court had not yet ruled on her second motion to correct errors filed June 17,1977. We disagree.
When the trial court certified its Amended Findings of Fact, Conclusions of Law and Judgment to this court on April 18,1977, pursuant to this court’s order of April 5,1977, the trial court became divested of all jurisdiction to take any further action in this cause. See generally, Layne v. State (1977), 172 Ind.App. 570, 572, 361 N.E.2d 170, 172.
However, we have carefully considered petitioner’s second motion to correct errors attached to her petition for rehearing and find that it, as was true of her first motion to correct errors, fails to establish that the judgment of the trial court was clearly erroneous.
Petition for rehearing denied.
Robertson, C.J. and Lybrook, J. concur.
Note —Reported at 368 N.E.2d 1.