48 P. 364 | Or. | 1897
This is a motion to dismiss an appeal. The record shows that on March 24, 1892, the plaintiff, Connor Bros., by consideration of the Circuit Court of Crook County, obtained a decree against the defendant, Wm. S. Clark, from which the latter, on September 10, 1892, perfected an appeal by serving and filing a notice thereof, with proof of service, and giving an undertaking therefor, but the transcript was not filed in this court until June 20, 1893. ^ also appears that at the time the
It appears by the affidavits of appellant’s counsel that about April 1, 1893, he entered into an agreement with respondent’s counsel — and in this respect he is corroborated by the admission of the latter — whereby it was stipulated that the cause should be tried at Salem, though the written memorandum to that effect purports to have been executed June 14,- 1893, and this presents the inquiry wdiether the parties, having once selected the place of trial, different from that prescribed by law, can thereafter change it without filing the transcript at the place agreed upon. If such a change is permissible, and the stipulation was entered into at the time stated in the affidavit, it would necessarily follow that the cause was transferred to Salem before the appellant was in default at Pendleton. The appeal having been perfected September 10, 1892, and the next succeeding term of this court occurring at Salem on the first Monday in October of that year, the transcript should have been forwarded to this place, but, the parties having stipulated that the cause might be tried at Pendleton, exhausted, in our judgment, the power conferred by the statute, and thereafter could not by stipulation transfer the appeal to Salem, or invest the court with jurisdiction of the cause by filing the transcript with the clerk here. If such a proceeding were permissible, then the parties to an appeal might by stipulation entered into at any time prior to the first day of a term of this court transfer a cause from one place to another, and thus keep it in vibratory motion for an indefinite period. We cannot
Dismissed.