Case ID: mich_107/html/0480-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "Montgomery, J.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

PERRY v. CHURCH.
    Writ op Error — When Lies.
    An order sustaining a demurrer as to certain counts of a declaration, and overruling it as to others, is not reviewable by writ of error prior to the entry of final judgment.
    Error to Kent; Adsit, J.
    Submitted December 6, 1895.
    Decided December 17, 1895.
    Trespass de boms by Franklin D. Perry and another against Isaac R. Church. Defendant interposed a demurrer, which was sustained in part and overruled in part. Both parties bring error.
    Writs dismissed.
    
      Franlc A. Rodgers, for plaintiffs.
    
      Sweet, Rerldns & Judldns, for defendant.
   Montgomery, J.

Plaintiffs brought a suit against defendant, and filed a declaration containing four counts. Defendant demurred on various grounds, some of them on the whole declaration, and some of them on particular counts. A hearing was had on demurrer, and the court sustained the demurrer to the third and fourth counts, and overruled the demurrer as to the remainder of the declaration. The order granted concludes by directing that plaintiffs have 20 days in which to amend their declaration, and defendant have 10 days thereafter in which to plead. No judgment appears to have been entered, although both parties have sought to have the action of the court reviewed by writ Of error.

We cannot entertain jurisdiction of the case until final judgment is entered. The office of a writ of error is to review final judgments, and it can only be employed in cases where the affirmance of the judgment of the inferior court leaves nothing for that court to do further.. 2 Enc. Pl. & Prac. 52; Brady v. Railroad Co., 73 Mich.. 457; Bostwick v. Brinkerhoff, 106 U. S. 3; Clark v. Village of North Muskegon, 86 Mich. 29.

The case will he dismissed, and the record remanded, but without costs to either party.

Long, Grant, and Hooker, JJ., concurred. McGrath, C. J., did not sit.