Crown Aluminum Industries v. Wabash Co.
| Decision Date | 29 November 1977 |
| Docket Number | No. 1-1076A192,1-1076A192 |
| Citation | 369 N.E.2d 945,174 Ind.App. 659 |
| Parties | CROWN ALUMINUM INDUSTRIES, Appellant (Plaintiff below), v. The WABASH COMPANY, Appellee (Defendant below). |
| Court | Indiana Appellate Court |
Carroll, Wolf, Fix & Hoff, Bloomington, for appellant.
Donald G. Henderson, Henderson & Henderson, J. Grant Moore, Bedford, for appellee.
This appeal comes to us presenting the question of whether the trial court correctly overruled the motion for relief from judgment filed pursuant to Ind.Rules of Procedure, Trial Rule 60(B)(1) and 60(B)(8) filed by plaintiff-appellant, Crown Aluminum Industries (Crown) on February 27, 1976.
On August 11, 1975 Crown filed a motion to correct errors. A hearing on the motion was held September 22, 1975, evidence was heard, and hearing continued until October 20, 1975 when the same was concluded. The trial court took the matter under advisement and gave the parties 30 days in which to file memoranda in support of their respective positions.
On November 10, 1975 the trial court overruled Crown's motion to correct errors although the 30 day period granted on October 20, 1975 had not yet expired. Notice of the court's ruling was immediately thereafter sent to the parties.
Crown filed its praecipe on December 22, 1975, a date which was within 30 days from the extension of time granted the parties to file their memoranda but not within 30 days from the date the trial court entered its order overruling the motion to correct errors (November 10, 1975).
Then, on January 6, 1976 the trial court, stating its reason to be that Crown's filing for a praecipe was more than 30 days following denial of its motion to correct errors, entered an order to the Clerk to refrain from preparing a transcript until otherwise order by the Indiana courts of appeal.
On February 27, 1976, Crown filed a TR 60 motion for relief from judgment (based on TR 60(B)(1) mistake, surprise, or excusable neglect and (8) any other reason justifying relief from the operation of the judgment) which was addressed to the January 6, 1976 order of the trial court. The trial court overruled Crown's motion for relief from judgment on March 4, 1976. Crown then filed a second motion to correct errors, this one citing as error the trial court's order of March 4, 1976 which denied Crown's motion for relief from the January 6, 1976 order. The trial court overruled this motion to correct errors on July 12, 1976, and Crown filed its praecipe and brings this appeal.
In its motion for relief from judgment and its second motion to correct errors, Crown asserts that the trial court's order of November 10, 1975, which overruled Crown's first motion to correct errors, was not in fact entered until November 20, 1975.
A portion of the transcript available to this court clearly shows that the trial court reviewed its record and proceedings and determined that the November 10, 1975 entry was not a typographical error as Crown alleges, but was in fact the date of the trial court's ruling on Crown's motion to correct errors. The trial court also found that notice of the November 10, 1975 ruling was given to respective counsel in writing immediately thereafter.
The issue which has been presented to this court on appeal is:
1. Whether the trial court, in its order of January 6, 1976, erred in ordering the clerk to refrain from preparing a transcript in compliance with Crown's praecipe.
Crown contends that the trial court granted the litigants 30 days in which to submit written memoranda in support of and in opposition to Crown's first motion to correct errors, and that the trial court's ruling on November 10, 1975 was erroneous because the 30 day period did not expire until November 20, 1975. Crown alleges that its praecipe filed December 22, 1975 was timely filed pursuant to the trial court's order granting the parties 30 days in which to act.
While the trial court's ruling on November 10, 1975 could be perceived as premature, we also know that the trial court determined its ruling without further aid of memoranda of the parties and entered the same prior to the expiration of the time given the parties to assist it by filing memoranda. This, it had a right to do. The trial court did not abuse its discretion in ruling at the time it did. Further, it immediately notified respective counsel of its ruling. Had the trial judge...
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