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Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

STEVENS v. SOLID MULDOON PRINTING CO.
    
      (Supreme Court of Colorado,
    
      December Term, 1883
    
    
      Error to the District Court of Ouray County.)
    1. Judgment—Form of. A strict compliance with forms is not essential to the entry of judgments; yet to constitute a final judgment the record must not only indicate that an adjudication took place, but the entry must have been intended as the entry of a judgment. “The Court having heard the same, the motion was granted and the action dismissed at plaintiff’s costs,” is not a judgment.
    2. Same—Appeal. In such case, there being no final judgment either to affirm or reverse, the writ of error must be dismissed.
   Per Curiam.

The record in this case fails to disclose anything which by the most liberal interpretation can be termed a final judgment.- The nearest approach thereto is the following language, viz: “The Court having heard the same this motion was granted and the action dismissed at plaintiff’s costs.” This is a mere declaration that the action was dismissed at the plaintiff’s costs; it does not profess to be a judgment, neither does it appear, therefrom, that it was intended to be such. “A strict compliance with forms is not essential in the entry of judgments, yet to constitute a final judgment the record must not only indicate that an adjudication took place, but the entry must have been intended as an entry of judgment.” Alvord et al. v. McGaughey, 5 Colo., 244.

Thomas George, for plaintiff in error.

Markham & Patterson, W. Harrison and F. C. Goudy, for defendant in error.

There being no final judgment to either affirm or reverse, the writ of error must be dismissed. Writ dismissed.