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State ex Rel. Eason v. Appellate Court

Supreme Court of Indiana
Jan 8, 1954
233 Ind. 46 (Ind. 1954)

Opinion

No. 29,133.

Filed January 8, 1954.

MANDAMUS — Appeal — Opinion of Appellate Court. — Where relators seek to mandate Appellate Court to change mandate of opinion without having pursued a petition for rehearing or transfer, such proceeding is foreign to statutory law of procedure and rules of this Court and where they also failed to comply with Rule 2-35, no question is presented to Supreme Court for consideration.

Original action by Richard K. Eason and wife, as relators, to mandate Appellate Court to change the mandate of an opinion handed down by Appellate Court.

Petition for writ of mandate denied.

Frederick C. Crumpacker, of Valparaiso, for relators.


Relators were appellants in the case of Eason et al. v. Northern Indiana Public Service Co., being No. 18,408 in the Appellate Court of Indiana. On October 26, 1953, the Appellate Court decided that case with written opinion, duly filed on that day. See 124 Ind. App. 53, 114 N.E.2d 887.

Relators at that time found no fault with that decision or that opinion. They did not ask for a rehearing. They did not ask for a transfer to this court. They did not ask for a change in the mandate. They did not ask for a decision on any point not there decided. They did not ask for change in the spelling of a word or the dotting of an "i." Not to this day have they asked for relief of any kind from the Appellate Court.

Yet, on the 30th day of December, 1953, after the elapse of two months from the filing of the opinion of the Appellate Court, relators file this petition in this court asking that this court mandate the Appellate Court and the Judges thereof to change the mandate in the opinion handed down on October 26, 1953, and decide questions not discussed in that opinion.

This proceeding is foreign to our statutory law of procedure and the rules of this court. The statute (Burns' 1946 Replacement, § 4-215) provides a procedure for litigants who are dissatisfied with a decision of the Appellate Court. This relators did not pursue. They have also failed to comply with Rule 2-23 of this court, in that no petition for rehearing was filed, and therefore no question is presented for our consideration. Steel Const. Co. v. Rossville Alc. Chem. Co. (1938), 105 Ind. App. 520, 12 N.E.2d 987, 16 N.E.2d 698.

Petition denied.

Gilkison, J., concurs in result.

NOTE. — Reported in 116 N.E.2d 299.


Summaries of

State ex Rel. Eason v. Appellate Court

Supreme Court of Indiana
Jan 8, 1954
233 Ind. 46 (Ind. 1954)
Case details for

State ex Rel. Eason v. Appellate Court

Case Details

Full title:STATE OF INDIANA ON RELATION OF EASON ET UX. v. APPELLATE COURT OF INDIANA…

Court:Supreme Court of Indiana

Date published: Jan 8, 1954

Citations

233 Ind. 46 (Ind. 1954)
116 N.E.2d 299

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