Court Opinion

ID: 9630157
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-22 10:03:05.378996+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T18:07:32.690327
License: Public Domain

HENRIOD, Justice
(concurring and dissenting) .
I concur in the result for the reason that 78-13-8 clearly requires that, in order to effect a change of place of trial, a written motion to change the place of trial must.be filed at the time of answer or other appearance. This was not done here and should end the matter. To permit, as the main opinion does, a departure from such procedure, with no authority for a subsequent filing- of a proper motion, is to ignore and render impotent a clear, unambiguous provision of the statute, even though the same result is effected, i. e., affirmance of the trial court’s denial of the motion to dismiss. I believe the main opinion judicially legislates and exceeds its constitutional prerogatives.