Court Opinion

ID: 9833157
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-09-01 22:29:54.417126+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T07:44:00.197639
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On Second Motion for Rehearing.
Plaintiffs in error have filed their second motion for a rehearing, and insist that our dismissal of the case heretofore, because the record did not contain any-judgment showing that the trial court had sustained a general demurrer to the petition of plaintiffs in error, and dismissed their suit, was error. In our former opinion we said: '
“There is in the record, under the heading ‘Judgment of Dismissal,’ a transcript of the docket entries of the trial court’s docket to that effect, but alleged error in the ruling of the trial court will not be considered on appeal, where the record contains nothing to show that such ruling was in fact made, other than a transcript of the notes on the trial docket.”
Plaintiffs in error in this motion say:
“They cannot believe that this court would deliberately ignore the clear and positive statement in the transcript that the judgment of dismissal was recorded in Volume U, page 20, Civil Minutes, and arbitrarily say that the transcript does not’ show a final judgment.”
We thank counsel for acquitting us of having deliberately ignored the record, and from having arbitrarily declared this court without jurisdiction for want of a final judgment in the record. Ignoring the record, and arbitrarily holding that the transcript contained no final judgment of the trial court, was the farthest from our intention in the matter. The transcript contains, at page 11, the following:
“No. 21832. J. C. De La Moriniere, Jr., v. Jake H. Sam et al. Sept. 21, 1926. Defendant’s demurrer sustained as to plaintiff’s third amended petition sustained.
“Sept 21, 1926. Dismissed on plaintiffs’ refusal to plead further.
“Docket entry and recorded Vol. U, page 20, Civil Minutes.”
This is the matter to which plaintiffs in error refer as the “clear and positive statement in the transcript that the judgment of dismissal was recorded in Volume U, page 20, Civil Minutes.” This is but a transcript of the trial court’s docket entries, which, it has repeatedly been held, does not constitute any part of the record on appeal, and cannot be properly considered as such. See authorities *314In original opinion. The mere statement that the docket entry was recorded in Volume U, page 20, Civil Minutes, and its being copied into the transcript, is not that final judgment recorded in the minutes of the court that is required. The law requires that the “judgment" from which a litigant appeals, and of which he complains, must appear in the transcript. Article 2281, Revised Civil Statutes, 1925, requires that the transcript must contain “a copy of the final judgment,” from which the appeal is taken. A copy of the docket entries of the trial judge, even though they show that a judgment was entered, and state that said entries are recorded in the minutes of the court, is not a copy of the actual judgment entered, and cannot take the place of same in a transcript on appeal.
The motion is overruled.