18 Ohio C.C. 232

(First Circuit — Ham. County Ohio Circuit Court

Jan. Term, 1899.)

Before Smith, Swing and Cox, JJ.

CLARA T. WILDER ET AL. v. ALEXANDER McDONALD ET AL.

Bill of Exceptions — From when the fifty days run—

The time within which a petition in error mav be filed begins to run from the date of the rendition and entry of the judgment, notwithstanding the trial court on a subsequent date overruled a motion for a new trial and made separate findings of fact and conclusions of law.

Smith, J.

We see no reason to change the opinion heretofore expressed on the motion to strike from the files the petition in error in this case on the ground that it was not filed within six months from the day of the rendition and entry of the judgment which is sought to be reversed.

On the 26th day of June, 1897, the case was tried to the court, and a judgment entered dismissing the petition at the costs of the plaintiffs, to which they excepted. On the 29th of June, a motion to set aside the judgment and for a new trial was filed. At a subsequent term, viz., on October 13th, the court entered an order, making a separate finding of facts and its conclusions of law, and overruled the motion for a new trial, but no entry was ever made by the court in any other respect modifying or vacating the original judgment of June 26th, nor was there any other judgment entered on Octobér 13th.other than that overruling the motion for a new trial.

*233 S. T. Crawford, for Plaintiff in Error.

Maxwell & Ramsey, contra

The petition in error was not filed until April 13, 1898, which was much more than six months from the entry of the judgment in the case, viz., June 26th, but was within six months from the overruling of the motion for a new trial and the entry of the finding of' facte.

This question, we, think, is- conclusively settled by the decisions of the supreme court in the cases of Young v. Shellenberger, 53 Ohio St., 291-9, and Dowty v. Popple, 58 Ohio St., 395. If the court had in any way, by the entry of October 13th, modified or set aside the judgment entered on June 26th, there might have been some ground to believe that the petition in error might be filed within six months from that date; but this was not done, and if the plaintiff below allowed the six months from June 29th to run without filing his petition in error, he can not do so afterwards.

Wilder v. McDonald
18 Ohio C.C. 232

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Wilder v. McDonald
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Jan 1, 1899
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