Court Opinion

ID: 7882184
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2022-09-08 21:34:51.106751+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T16:31:37.854634
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By the Court,

Kingman, C. J.
This cause has been in this court before, [See 4 Kansas, 422.] Upon the return of the case, and the filing of the mandate, which was that “ said judgment be reversed and said cause remanded to said district court to be transferred to the proper county, as provided by law, for further proceedingsthe district court of Bourbon county, on motion of Kimble, made an order transferring the case to Cherokee county, there to stand for trial.
At the October term of the district court of Cherokee county, the defendant, the plaintiff in error, appeared specially, and filed his motion to dismiss the action because :
*81First, the court has no jurisdiction of the action.
Second, the court has no jurisdiction of the person of the defendant, Brown.
Third, the record did not show that either party to the case had made “ application verified by affidavit,” showing that Cherokee county was the proper county to which the case was transferred' by chapter 54, laws of 1867.
"Which motion was overruled; which ruling the plaintiff:' in error claims was erroneous. The denial of a motion to dismiss is not one of the orders of a district court from which error lies to this court, until the final disposition of the action, [see Comp. Laws, p. 284] therefore the action on error in this case must be dismissed.
The counsel for plaintiff in error asks that the questions raised may be passed upon now, to save the trouble of bringing the case to this court again. There may never be occasion for such action. "We respectfully suggest that the first two points he raised by his motion, were passed upon when the case was here before; otherwise the mandate would have been to dismiss the action. The third ground the defendant in error assumed at his peril. If on the trial it shall appear that Cherokee is not the proper county, then he will be the sufferer ; if it he tire proper county, how is the plaintiff in error the sufferer ?
The cause on error in this court must be dismissed.
All the Justices concurring;