State ex rel. K.C. Stock Yards Co. v. Trimble
Decision Date | 24 June 1933 |
Docket Number | No. 31806.,31806. |
Citation | 62 S.W.2d 473 |
Parties | STATE OF MISSOURI at the Relation of KANSAS CITY STOCK YARDS COMPANY, a Corporation, Relator, v. FRANCIS H. TRIMBLE, EWING C. BLAND, HENRY L. ARNOLD, Judges of the Kansas City Court of Appeals, and CHESTER T. WOODCOCK. |
Court | Missouri Supreme Court |
Grover Childers for respondents.
(1) Relator's appeal "from the judgment and orders of the court in overruling defendant's motion for new trial and in arrest" was not an appeal from a final judgment, or from an appealable order enumerated in Section 1018, R.S. 1929; and relator's affidavit for appeal "that appellant is aggrieved by the ruling and decision of this court overruling defendant's motion for a new trial and in arrest of judgment" was not a compliance with Section 1020, R.S. 1929, governing affidavits for appeals. Secs. 1018, 1020, R.S. 1929; Walser v. Leach, 190 S.W. 932; Bonfils v. Martin's Food Service Co., 299 Mo. 500, 253 S.W. 982; Arcadia Timber Co. v. Evans, 304 Mo. 674, 264 S.W. 810; Elliott v. Ward. 251 S.W. 71; Pfotenhauer v. Ridgeway, 307 Mo. 529, 271 S.W. 50; Cavanaugh v. Dyer, 215 S.W. 481. (a) The authorities cited by relator do not sustain the points urged. Sec. 1018, R.S. 1929; State ex rel. v. McElhinney, 241 Mo. 608, 145 S.W. 1139; Bonfils v. Food Service Co., 299 Mo. 500, 253 S.W. 982; Cassidy v. St. Joseph, 247 Mo. 203, 152 S.W. 306; Kennedy v. Bowling, 4 S.W. (2d) 441. (b) The absence of an application for appeal may, and jurisdictional defects, do present, jurisdictional questions where such irregularities constitute a total failure to comply with the statutory requirements regulating appeals. Authorities supra 1. (c and d) A respondent may raise the question of sufficiency of the application and affidavit for appeal at any time where there is such failure of compliance with statutory requirements as confers no jurisdiction on the appellate court. Bonfils v. Martin's Food Service Co., 299 Mo. 500, 253 S.W. 983; Elliott v. Ward, 251 S.W. 71; Walser v. Leach, 190 S.W. 932. (c and d 2) The authorities cited by relator do not relate to situations involving total failure to comply with statutory requirements, wholly failing to confer jurisdiction on the appellate court. Cooley v. Railroad Co., 149 Mo. 478, 51 S.W. 101; State ex rel. v. Broaddus, 210 Mo. 1, 108 S.W. 544; Causey v. Wittig, 11 S.W. (2d) 14; Kennedy v. Bowling, 4 S.W. (2d) 441; Sec. 1028, R.S. 1929. (e) The question as to what judgment or order is appealed from is determined from the application and affidavit for appeal. Sec. 1028, R.S. 1929; Bonfils v. Martin's Food Service Co., 299 Mo. 500, 253 S.W. 982. (2) Appeals are purely statutory. No provision is made for appeals from orders overruling a motion for new trial or in arrest of judgment. The matter is jurisdictional in this case. Bonfils v. Martin's Food Service Co., 299 Mo. 500, 253 S.W. 982; Arcadia Timber Co. v. Evans, 304 Mo. 674, 264 S.W. 810. (a) Authorities cited by relator are not in point on the question. Cooley v. Ry. Co., 149 Mo. 478, 51 S.W. 101; State ex rel. v. Broaddus, 210 Mo. 1, 108 S.W. 544; Causey v. Wittig, 11 S.W. (2d) 14. (3) The authorities cited by the judges of the Kansas City Court of Appeals, viz: Bonfils v. Martin's Food Service Co., 299 Mo. 500, 253 S.W. 982, and Arcadia Timber Co. v. Evans, 304 Mo. 674, 264 S.W. 810, are directly in point on the question involved and are ruling decisions of this court on the question and were properly cited and followed by the Kansas City Court of Appeals. Bonfils v. Martin's Food Service Co., 299 Mo. 500, 253 S.W. 982; Arcadia Timber Co. v. Evans, 304 Mo. 674, 264 S.W. 810.
The question for decision is whether we should issue our peremptory writ of mandamus against respondents, the judges of the Kansas City Court of Appeals. Our alternative writ commanded them to set aside an order of their court dismissing an appeal and to reinstate the cause for decision on its merits or that they show cause why they should not do so. Respondents having filed their return to the alternative writ, relator filed its motion for judgment upon the pleadings.
The issue is whether the Kansas City Court of Appeals had jurisdiction of a certain cause in which Chester T. Woodcock, one of the respondents here, was plaintiff and respondent there, and Kansas City Stock Yards Company, relator here, was defendant and appellant there. Judgment having been rendered in the Jackson County Circuit Court in the sum of $300 against relator, Kansas City Stock Yards Company, there was filed on behalf of that company in the trial court a certain application and affidavit for appeal, the jurisdictional validity and sufficiency of which is the precise question before us. The application and affidavit for appeal are as follows:
It is conceded that mandamus is the proper remedy to compel an inferior court to exercise jurisdiction of a cause properly before it. [State ex rel. Kansas City Light and Power Company v. Trimble et al., 303 Mo. 284, 258 S.W. 696.]
[1] I. It has been ruled often that the right of appeal is purely statutory. Section 1018 (2 Mo. Stat. Ann. 1929, p. 1286), specifies the judgments and orders from which an appeal may be taken. The parts of that statute, pertinent to this case, are: "Any party to a suit aggrieved by any judgment of any circuit court in any civil cause from which an appeal is not prohibited by the Constitution, may take his appeal to a court having appellate jurisdiction from...
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