Case ID: colo_6/html/0148-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
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Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Higgins v. Brown et al.
    An appeal lies only from a final judgment or decree.
    
      Appeal from County Court of Lake County.
    
    Motion to dismiss appeal.
    Mr. A. W. Bttcker, for appellant.
    Mr. H. P. Bennet, for appellee.
   Per Curiam:

The motion to dismiss the appeal in this cause assigns as ground therefor that the appeal was taken from an interlocutory order of the court below and not from a final judgment.

The record discloses that appellees, Brown & Thum, brought an action upon a promissory note against the appellant, the complaint being filed at the September term, 1879, of the county court of Lake county.

Appellant appeared, answered the complaint and filed his cross-complaint. At the November term, 1879, the default of plaintiffs below was entered for failure to answer the cross-complaint, and afterwards, at the same term, judgment was entered against the plaintiffs in favor of the appellant on the cross-complaint for the sum of $226 and costs of suit, the judgment reciting that this was the amount due the defendant after allowing plaintiffs the full amount of their claim.

The plaintiffs below filed a motion at the January term, 1880, to vacate the judgment, which motion was allowed, and this appeal is prayed from the order vacating the judgment.

However erroneous the action of the court may have been in sustaining a motion, made at a subsequent term, to vacate a judgment entered at a previous term, no appeal lies to this court from such order. It is in no sense a final judgment or decree. Laws 1819, p. 226, sec. 26.

The appellant having mistaken his remedy, the appeal must be dismissed at his costs.

Appeal dismissed.