Court Opinion

ID: 9813648
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-31 23:13:51.451326+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T15:30:30.387409
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On Application for rehearing.
Bryant, J.
This matter comes on for consideration upon a motion for rehearing filed by Benj. R. Drayer, as agent, on behalf of Central Ohio Anglers’ & Hunters’ Club of Columbus, Ohio, appellant herein. Drayer seeks reconsideration of the decision by this court handed down April 30, 1957, in which this court sustained a motion of Samuel A. Williams, d. b, a. *92King-Starr-Carry-Out & Sporting Goods, appellee herein, to dismiss the appeal for the reason that the order appealed from was not a final order.
Drayer, in his petition in the court below, prayed for a money judgment against Williams in the amount of $362.25, with interest, and also that he be awarded punitive damages and costs. On motion by Williams in the court below, the portion of the prayer relating to punitive damages was stricken from the prayer of the petition. Drayer, in a memorandum filed in support of his motion for rehearing, asks this court to determine whether the money (alleged to have arisen from the sale of hunting and fishing licenses) is public money, and, further, whether the failure of defendant to pay over or account for such money is embezzlement and hence criminal.
Drayer directs attention to that portion of his brief relating to the first assignment of error, which we again have read with care.
As we understand the decisions, several of which were cited in the opinion of April 30, 1957, in a case such as this, the order appealed from must have such finality that it cannot be said that the matter is pending and active in the court below when the appeal is taken. Our decision did not say that an appeal was not possible in a case such as this. It did say that in the state of the record as it now exists there was no final order from which an appeal could be taken. If plaintiff felt that the order of the court below was erroneous and also material to such a degree as substantially to defeat his recovery, he could elect to stand upon his pleading, whereupon the court below would have no choice but to dismiss the cause of action.
There was no entry of dismissal of record in this case. The original decision must be adhered to and the motion for rehearing is, therefore, overruled.

Motion overruled.

Petree, P. J., and Miller, J., concur,