In re Brown's Guardianship
Citation | 6 Wn.2d 215,107 P.2d 1104 |
Decision Date | 19 November 1940 |
Docket Number | 27713. |
Court | United States State Supreme Court of Washington |
Parties | In re BROWN'S GUARDIANSHIP. |
On hearing for a motion to withdraw a prior opinion of a department of the Supreme Court on an appeal from an order of the superior court, or defer hearing on petition for rehearing, and respondent's motion to be relieved of answering petition for rehearing.
Motion to withdraw departmental opinion denied, and appeal dismissed.
For former opinion, see 101 P.2d 1003.
Appeal from Superior Court, Yakima County; Dolph Barnett, judge.
Allen Froude, & Hilen and Rummens & Griffin, all of Seattle, and P.J. Gallagher and George B. Guthrie, both of Portland, Or for appellant.
Preston, Thorgrimson & Turner, of Seattle, for a surety company, United States Fidelity & Guaranty Co.
Bonsted & Nichoson, of Yakima, and Poe, Falknor, Emory & Howe, of Seattle, for respondent.
On appeal from an order of the superior court for Yakima county, approving the final account of the guardian of a minor, by an opinion of a department of this court, the order was affirmed, as modified. In re Estate of Fred R. Brown, 101 P.2d 1003. The opinion of this court directed that certain allowances be made by way of compensation to the guardian for services and for compensation to the guardian's attorneys. A petition for a rehearing of the matter En Banc was seasonably filed by the appellant, and thereafter this court directed counsel for respondents to answer the petition. While the matter was thus pending Before this court, all controversies involved in the appeal were fully settled by the joint acts of all the parties concerned, and this fact having been called to the attention of this court, appellant has moved that the order directing respondents' counsel to answer appellant's petition for rehearing be vacated, and that an order dismissing the appeal be entered. Appellant also asks that the opinion of the court affirming the order, as modified, be withdrawn, and as an alternative, moves that consideration of the petition for rehearing be deferred until the hearing of a companion case, which has not yet been determined by this court. Respondents agree that they should be relieved from the burden of answering appellant's petition for rehearing, but contend that appellant's motion for the withdrawal of the opinion filed should be denied.
By the actions of the parties in voluntarily compromising and settling their disputes, this litigation has been terminated. No further rights or claims of any of the parties remain to be adjudicated, and as to them all questions involved have become moot.
By Rem.Rev.Stat. § 10, it is provided that such a decision of a department of this court as was rendered in the case at bar
In this statute the word decision is evidently used as synonymous with opinion.
The question here presented concerns the procedure to be followed in the rather unusual situation above narrated.
In the case of Dishman v. Whitney, 121 Wash. 157, 209 P. 12, 29 A.L.R. 460, a departmental opinion was filed, affirming the judgment appealed from, which had been rendered in favor of the plaintiff. After the filing of the opinion, a petition for rehearing En Banc was filed and granted, but Before the day fixed for the rehearing, the parties entered into a stipulation reciting that the judgment had been fully settled and satisfied, and that the appeal might be dismissed without costs. Thereafter, by a per curiam opinion (124 Wash. 697, 215 P. 71, 72), this court called attention to a slightly inaccurate statement in the departmental opinion, the per curiam opinion concluding with the following sentence: 'By filing this brief memorandum it is not the intention either to approve or disapprove the department opinion except in so far as that opinion was not accurate in its discussion of the case mentioned.' Later the appeal was, by order of this court, dismissed.
In the case of Nettleship v. Shipman, 161 Wash. 292, 296 P. 1056, 1058, referring to the opinion of this court in the Dishman case, appears the following:
In the case of Mitchell v. Maytag-Pacific-Intermountain Co., 184 Wash. 342, 51 P.2d 393, 396, the Dishman case was again referred to as follows:
In the case of Bourus v. Hagen, 192 Wash. 588, 74 P.2d 205, 207, we referred to the case in the following language:
In the case of Hutchings v. Fanshier, 132 Wash. 5, 231 P. 14, a departmental opinion was filed, reversing, on plaintiff's appeal, the judgment of the superior court in favor of defendants. After the filing of the departmental opinion, a petition for rehearing was filed and by the court granted, but prior to the date fixed for the rehearing, the parties filed in this court a stipulation reciting a settlement of the litigation, and agreeing that the appeal be dismissed, and that this court remit the cause to the superior court, with directions to dismiss the action with prejudice and without costs. By a per curiam opinion (134 Wash. 704, 236 P. 119), this court, after reciting the facts above stated, in accordance with the terms of the stipulation, dismissed the appeal, with directions to the trial court to dismiss the action, as provided in the stipulation of the parties.
In the Hutchings and Dishman cases, petitions for rehearing having been granted, the departmental opinions were 'vacated', as provided by the statute above quoted. In the case at bar, the opinion was suspended by the filing of the petition for a rehearing. In neither instance did the opinion ever become final; the moment for the entry of a judgment by this court never arrived. In so far as the questions here presented are concerned, whether an opinion be vacated or suspended, the result is the same.
In the case at bar, the petition for rehearing was not granted, nor have respondents filed their answer thereto. In 7 Cal.Jur. 647, title 'Courts', § 49, is found the following:
Out statute does not observe the distinction between opinion and decision noted in the above text, but does differentiate between a decision of this court and a judgment thereof. The above text correctly states the difference between the words.
In 9 Bancroft's Code Practice and Remedies 9565, § 7253, is found the following: ...
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