Tagged: PETITION FOR RE-ARGUMENT

Rule IX of the Revised Rules of the Supreme Court provides in part that “for good cause shown to the Court by petition, a re-argument of a cause may be allowed only once when some palpable substantial mistake is made by inadvertently overlooking some fact, or point of law.”

This petition for re-argument grows out of this Court’s decision delivered on December 15, 2022 during its October Term on a motion to dismiss appeal filed by the respondent herein, Mr. John P. Saah, against an appeal taken by Liberia Sheng Xin De Yuan Mining Company, petitioner herein, from a final ruling of the 16th Judicial Circuit for Gbapolu County in an action of damages for wrong. In that Opinion, this Court found that the petitioner herein, filed its bill of exceptions on May 11, 2022 outside the statutory period of ten days which rendered its appeal dismissed. We quote succinct parts of that Opinion as follows: