Court Opinion

ID: 9669401
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-24 02:55:05.678375+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T18:15:56.315031
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Gordon and Wilkie, JJ.
(concurring). We join in the court’s. opinion that this appeal should be dismissed for the reason that the order appealed from is not appealable. We would dismiss the appeal on the additional ground that the appeal is “frivolous” which ground (among others) was asserted by respondent in her motion, made shortly before oral argument, to dismiss the appeal.
*433By its order of January 7, 1964, the trial court, in effect, reopened the judgment in this case, stating that the plaintiff was “permitted relief under Section 269.46 of the Wisconsin statutes, particularly on the grounds of excusable neglect.” Deeming itself aggrieved by such order, Park Building Corporation attempted to appeal from such order, but on April 23, 1964, this court dismissed such appeal as having been taken from a nonappealable order.
Thereupon, Park Building Corporation filed a plea in bar in the trial court and moved in such court for summary judgment, alleging that the original judgment was still in force, thus barring the plaintiff’s action. This appeal is from the trial court’s denial of the application for summary judgment.
Although it is labeled a motion for summary judgment, the present motion is, in our opinion, an obvious attempt to obtain a second ruling on the precise same point which was the subject of the previous abortive appeal. This is not a valid motion for summary judgment; it is instead an attempt to get a second kick at the cat. We regard both the motion and the appeal as frivolous and would dismiss with double costs, pursuant to sec. 251.23 (3), Stats. See Estate of Bair (1956), 272 Wis. 14, 16, 74 N. W. (2d) 639; Grossman v. Kuehn (1942), 241 Wis. 55, 56, 4 N. W. (2d) 124; Kellogg-Citizens Nat. Bank v. Francois (1942), 240 Wis. 432, 3 N. W. (2d) 686.