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9 Kan. App. 670

Webber v. Genoways

Court of Appeals of Kansas

Decided November 20, 1899

Court of Appeals of Kansas · decided 1899-11-20

<p>1. Appellate Procedure — Amendment of Case-made. Neither the judge of the district court nor the supreme court can amend or add to a case-made for the supreme court after it has been settled, signed, and attested. (Graham v. Shaw, 38 Kan. 734, 17 Pac. 332.)</p> <p>2. Amendment of Judge's Certificate — Excepted Classes. This court cannot permit a case-made to be amended more than one year after the rendition of the judgment complained of, by incorporating therein a certificate of the district judge trying the case that “the case is one belonging to the excepted classes.” (.Railroad Co. v. Toiunsend, 8 Kan. App. 694, 56 Pac. 150.)</p>

Cited by 1 later decisions — most recently May 1931

1 state decisions

Relies on Loomis v. Bass · Clark v. City of Ottawa · Missouri Pacific Railway Co. v. Townsend

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Dismissed · Decided 1899-11-20

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¶1The opinion of the court was delivered by

Schoonover, J.:

¶2This case is presented upon a motion to dismiss for the reason that the record does not show that there is more than $100 involved and there is no certificate of the judge, as required by law, to make the case come within one of the exceptions.

¶3The judgment appealed from was rendered on the 22d day of June, 1897. The case was settled on the 29th day of March, 1898, and filed in this court on the 17th day of June, 1898.

¶4On the 14th day of October, 1899, the defendant in error presented his motion to dismiss. At the same time plaintiff in error presented his motion to this court and asked that the following certificate of the *671trial judge be attached to the original record and become a part of same :

“ This is to certify that in making my certificate in settling the case-made in the above-entitled action I failed to certify that it was one of the excepted cases ; and I now certify that said cause comes within the 'excepted cases of the statute, and ask the Kansas court of appeals to make this a part of the record by its order. This the 14th day of October, 1899.
D. M. Dale, Judge.”

¶5The question involved in this case has been passed upon by this court in the case of Mo. Pac. Rly. Co. v. Townsend, 8 Kan. App. 694, 56 Pac. 150. The court held that a case-made could not be amended more than one year after the rendition of the judgment complained of, by incorporating therein a certificate of the district judge trying the case “that the case is one belonging to the excepted classes.” As bearing upon this question, the following cases are cited: Loomis v. Bass, 48 Kan. 26, 28 Pac. 1012; Clark v. City of Ottawa, 1 Kan. App. 304, 40 Pac. 1071; A. T. & S. F. Rld. Co. v. Anderson, 5 id. 707, 49 Pac. 108; Sparks v. Sparks, 6 id. 750, 50 Pac. 973; Lewis v. Linscott, 37 id. 379, 15 Pac. 158; Graham v. Shaw, 38 id. 734, 17 Pac. 332; Lumber Co. v. Tomlinson, 54 id. 770, 39 Pac. 694; Railway Co. v. Kimball, 48 id. 384, 29 Pac. 604.

¶6The motion to dismiss is sustained.

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