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13 Colo. 140

Wheeler v. Garrett

Supreme Court of Colorado

Decided April 15, 1889

Supreme Court of Colorado · decided 1889-04-15

Motion to dismiss appeal. On the 7th of November, 1888 (the issues in this cause having been jireviously made up), plaintiffs, Wheeler and Hagerman, by their attorneys, directed the clerk of the court below to enter an order dismissing the same, which was done. On the 23d of November following the attorneys appeared in behalf of the respective parties, and by consent the order of dismissal was vacated, and the cause reinstated upon the docket.

Cited by 2 later decisions — most recently April 1903

2 state decisions

Relies on Owen v. Going

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Decided 1889-04-15

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Per Curiam.

¶1This appeal must be stricken from the docket. There is no final judgment from which an appeal would lie. The judgment of dismissal and for costs originally entered, which was final, was vacated upon the application to reinstate. It is immaterial whether we speak of that application as a motion to reinstate or as a motion to vacate the final judgment of dismissal *141previously entered; for, in either event, the effect is precisely the same. The final judgment was thus set aside by order of the court.

¶2The entry of the subsequent order — that is, the order appealed from, which vacated the prior order of reinstatement — did not have the effect to revive the final judgment of dismissal. The intention doubtless was to accomplish this result, but the judgment should have been re-entered. It had been formally set aside, and the ruling before us did not accomplish its reinstatement. The situation here appearing is, so far as this question is concerned, not unlike that in Owen v. Going, 7 Colo. 85.

¶3The cause is stricken from, the docket, but either party may move in the court below for the re-entry of the final judgment which had previously been vacated, and proceedings may then be had as the parties shall be advised.

¶4Stricken from docket.

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