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MAURICE H. PELTZ vs. AMERICAN LOAN COMPANY, INCORPORATED.
    
      Right of Appeal — Ruling on Demurrer.
    
    No appeal will lie from an order sustaining plaintiff’s demurrer to defendant’s pleas in an action at law, although there is entered on the docket “judgment on the demurrer in favor of the plaintiff for costs,” such a ruling not being reviewable until after final judgment.
    
      Decided May 13th, 1925.
    
    Appeal from the Baltimore City Court (Ulmah, J.).
    Actions by the -American Loan Company, Incorporated, against Maurice H. P'eltz, trading as the London Eur Manu- ■ facturing Company. From two rulings 'Sustaining demurrers to pleas, the plaintiff separately appeals.
    Dismissed.
    The causes were argued before Btoiro, C. J., Urner, Offutt, PIarke, -and Walsh, IJ.
    
      Hyland P. Stewart, submitting on brief, for the' appellant.
    
      Benjamin H. McKindless, with whom were D'erlin Mc-Kindless and J esse Fine on the brief, for the appellee.
   The following per curiam opinion was delivered:

The motions to dismiss the appeals in these cases must be granted. 'The appeals -are taken by 'the defendant from rulings against him on demurrers to his third and fourth pleas to the seventh count of the plaintiff’s declarations in suits at common law, and to the amended fourth pleas to the same count. The demurrers were sustained and entries made: “Judgment on the demurrer * * * in .favor of the plaintiff for costs.” There were other pleas in the cases, and without those to Which demurrers were sustained, the eases appear to he alt issue and ready for trial.

In the ease of Emersonian Apartments v. Taylor, 132 Md. 209, exactly the same situation existed and it was held that the defendant 'had no right of appeal at that stage of the case.

Appeals dismissed luith costs to the appellee.