Johnston v. Seattle Taxicab & Transfer Co.

154 P. 787, 89 Wash. 494, 1916 Wash. LEXIS 699

• Court: Washington Supreme Court
• Decided: February 5, 1916
• Docket: No. 12302
• Status: Published

Opinion

On Rehearing.

Per Curiam.

Upon the original hearing of this appeal, the judgment was reversed as to some of the parties, and the appeal of the Seattle Taxicab & Transfer Company was dismissed. As against it,.the judgment was affirmed. Johnston v. Seattle Taxicab & Transfer Co., 85 Wash. 551, 148 Pac. 900. The dismissal was upon jurisdictional grounds. The Taxicab Company thereupon filed a petition for rehearing, contending that, having dismissed its appeal for want of jurisdiction, the judgment could not be affirmed, as such affirmance was an exercise of jurisdiction. It is clear that this contention is sound. While we have rendered judgment for costs against appellant upon the dismissal of appeals, we have uniformly held that lack of jurisdiction to hear the appeal is lack of jurisdiction for all purposes, and refused to affirm the judgment below upon the appeal being dismissed upon jurisdictional grounds. Grunewald v. West Coast Grocery Co., 11 Wash. 478, 39 Pac. 964; Henry v. Great Northern R. Co., 16 Wash. 417, 47 Pac. 896; Jones & Co. v. Cunningham, 79 Wash. 4, 139 Pac. 612; Davis v. Virgis, 39 Wash. 256, 81 Pac. 688; Davis v. Huth, 43 Wash. 383, 86 Pac. 654.

It follows that the affirmance of the judgment was an inadvertence and it must be modified. All that part of the former opinion directing an affirmance of the judgment is recalled and stricken. As so modified the judgment will be entered as first directed.