Court Opinion

ID: 9742671
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Date Created: 2023-08-26 21:17:43.418497+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T07:24:34.708044
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*566GIVAN, Justice,
dissenting.
I respectfully dissent from the majority opinion. I agree with the Court of Appeals decision reported at 595 N.E.2d 268.
I would call the reader's attention to Judge Shields' concurring-in-result opinion in which she observes that:
"Riggs waived their other specifications of error when they failed to object to the relief granted in the prior appeal."
An argument available to Riggs at that time was the principle that even though a trial court may have stated an erroneous reason for its judgment, if the record demonstrates that there was a correct reason for rendering the judgment, the trial court should not be reversed on appeal. See Havert v. Caldwell (1983), Ind., 452 N.E.2d 154. Thus, if any of the grounds stated in the case at bar would have justified the trial court in granting plaintiffs' motion to correct error, it was available to Riggs in the first appeal and as stated by Judge Shields, the matter therefore is waived.
The trial court should be affirmed.
KRAHULIK, J., not participating.