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74 Ind. 46

Robinson v. Wise

Indiana Supreme Court

Decided May 15, 1881

Indiana Supreme Court · decided 1881-05-15

<p>Practice. — Dismissal for want of Prosecution. — Change of. Venue.— Continuance. — Supreme Court. — Where the correctness of the ruling of the trial court in dismissing a cause for want of prosecution is not questioned, the Supreme Court will not go back of such ruling to consider assignments of error attacking the rulings refusing a change of venue and denying a continuance.</p>

Decided 1881-05-15

Elliott, J.

¶1Appellant was the plaintiff below. In that court motions were made by the appellant for a change of venue and for a continuance. Both of these motions, were overruled. After these motions had been overruled, the cause was called, for trial and dismissed for want of prosecution, and. judgment rendered against the appellant for costs. Appellant moved for a new trial, assigning, in support of his motion, two causes : 1st, the overruling of his motion for a change of venue; 2d, overruling his motion for a continuance.

¶2The record does not present any question for our consideration. The only causes assigned for a new trial are based upon rulings made prior to the order of dismissal, and were disposed of by that order. As the appellant does not, by Ms motion, attack the correctness of the ruling dismissing *47the cause for want of prosecution, we must regard him as in effect acquiescing in such dismissal. There is no attack at all made upon the order of dismissal, and we cannot go back of it to consider the questions upon the rulings refusing a change of venue, and denying a continuance. If the •appellant refused to prosecute his action, the court did right in dismissing it, and it is immaterial what errors were committed at an earlier stage of the proceedings. We must presume that the court did do right, until the appellant, by a proper motion and upon sufficient grounds, satisfies us that the order of dismissal was erroneous.

¶3Judgment affirmed.

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