Court Opinion

ID: 9666047
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-24 01:03:20.859915+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T18:15:23.013163
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PEDERSON, Justice
(concurring specially)-
By a stipulation not signed by any party to this suit, the attorneys attempt to give this court jurisdiction to consider questions certified by the trial court seven days after it lost complete jurisdiction over the case by an appeal taken from an order striking a provision from the complaint.
I would refuse to answer the certified questions because, by answering, we are in effect rendering an advisory opinion. See Scranton Grain Co. v. Lubbock Mach. & Supply Co., 175 N.W.2d 656 (N.D.1970), and Chapter 32-24, NDCC.
With regard to the appeal itself, it asks that we review an order that in no way comes within any of the seven categories of orders that may be carried to the Supreme Court under § 28-27-02, NDCC.
*754As we said in Saetz v. Heiser, 240 N.W.2d 67, 70 (N.D.1976), “when matters have been fully researched, briefed and argued, and involve the merits of a question which is of significant concern, this court will decide the case on its merits rather than remanding for technical corrections * * *.” Therefore, I reluctantly concur in the results without being sure that, if the case had been completed to judgment before the appeal, there may have been an entirely different argument, especially on the constitutional question raised. It is possible that we may have knocked out husband recovery for loss of consortium instead of extending such recovery to wives.