Court Opinion

ID: 9723280
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-26 10:09:56.142126+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T18:24:46.557802
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ON PETITION FOR REHEARING
Appellee accompanies his petition for rehearing with a petition for a writ of certiorari to have the clerk of the court below certify to this court a special bill of exceptions, as well as a petition to withdraw the transcript in order that the special bill of exceptions may be incorporated therein.
The petition for rehearing makes no objection to our decision as based upon the record before us.
“The rule has been long established that this court will not grant a rehearing to enable a party to correct or perfect a record.” Smith v. Gustin (1907), 169 Ind. 42, 52, 80 N. E. 959, 81 N. E. 722; The Board of Commissioners of Marion County v. Center Township et al. (1886), 105 Ind. 422, 444, 2 *256N. E. 368, 7 N. E. 189; The State v. Dixon (1884), 97 Ind. 125; Robbins et ux. v. Magee et al. (1884), 96 Ind. 174.
In Drake v. The State (1896), 145 Ind. 210, 218, 41 N. E. 799, 44 N. E. 188, the following is quoted from Judge Elliott’s work on Appellate Procedure, §208: “The rule is well settled that amendments will not be permitted after the decision on appeal. The duty of parties is to see that the record is properly made up, and if they fail to move promptly in securing a correction or amendment, where amendments or corrections are necessary to make a perfect record or fully present the questions, their complaint will not be heeded. It is incumbent upon the party desiring the amendment or corrections to take the necessary steps to secure it before the record is finally acted upon, and he must see that the officers of whom duties are required perform those duties.”
In the case of First Merchants Nat. Bank v. Crowley (1943), 221 Ind. 682, 686, 50 N. E. 2d 918, the Supreme Court quotes the following from the earlier case of Warner et al. v. Campbell et al. (1872), 39 Ind. 409:
“It has not been the practice of this court to grant a rehearing that the record may be amended. Such a practice could not be allowed. It is not the practice in any court to allow a new trial or a rehearing, merely that the party may amend his pleadings and present the case in a new form. We should make little progress in the business on the docket of the court, should we allow such a practice.”
It follows that the petition for rehearing as well as the petition for writ of certiorari and to withdraw the transcript must be, and they hereby are, denied.
Note. — Reported in 91 N. E. 2d 796.