Case ID: minn_25/html/0362-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "Berry, J.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Timothy Ryan vs. N. F. H. Kranz and others.
    January 10, 1879.
    Order for Judgment is not Appealable. — In this case the court below finds* as conclusions of law, “ that the plaintiff is not entitled to recover, and that the defendant is entitled to judgment against the plaintiff for his costs and disbursements,” adding the words: “Let judgment be-entered accordingly.” Held, that these words are not an order involving the merits, or any part thereof, but a mere direction t-h^t an act be-done which does involve the merits, to wit, that judgment be entered. Such direction is not appealable.
    
      A. R. Capehart, for appellant.
    
      Clagett <£ Searles, for respondents.
   Berry, J.

This case was tried by the district court without a jury. As conclusions of law, the court finds “that the plaintiff is not entitled to recover, and that the defendant is entitled to judgment against the plaintiff for his costs and disbursements, ” adding the words: “Let judgment be entered accordingly.” This direction is a part of the “decision” of the court, within the evident meaning of Gen. St. c. 66, § 226.. It is not an order involving the merits, or any part thereof,, within the meaning of Gen. St. c. 86, § 8, subd. 3, relating-to appeals in civil actions. It is merely a direction that an act be done which does involve the merits, to wit, that judgment be entered. It is, therefore, not appealable. Von Glahn v. Sommer, 11 Minn. 132 (203;) Lamb v. McCanna, 14 Minn. 513; Searles v. Thompson, 18 Minn. 320.

Appeal dismissed.