Case Title: Goza v. Everett

Citation: 365 So. 2d 658

Docket Number: 

State: alabama

Court: Alabama Supreme Court

Date: 1978-12-22T00:00:00Z

Document:
365 So. 2d 658 (1978)
Ida GOZA
v.
Jack N. EVERETT.
77-491.

Supreme Court of Alabama.
December 22, 1978.
*659 Loma B. Beaty, Fort Payne, for appellant.
Beck & Beck, J. C. Kellett of Kellett & Gillis, Fort Payne, for appellee.
MADDOX, Justice.
This appeal is to be dismissed because the judgment appealed from is not a final order under Rule 54(b) ARCP.
Plaintiff Everett filed a civil action in the Circuit Court of DeKalb County against defendants Goza and Bonnie Mills, Inc. seeking specific performance of a contract to convey real property and damages. Defendants demanded a jury trial, and in an amended answer counterclaimed against Everett. The defendants filed a motion for summary judgment, which the court denied. Plaintiff's motion to strike the defendants' jury demand was granted as to the claim for specific performance. The trial judge entered an order on his bench notes on January 30, 1978, which read as follows:
When more than one claim for relief is presented in an action, an order entered upon less than all of the claims is not a final, appealable order unless the judge makes an express determination that there is no just reason for delay pursuant to Rule 54(b) ARCP. No such determination is found in the record.
The claim for monetary damages was not disposed of, but that issue was specifically reserved "to be tried to a jury." The appeal, therefore, must be dismissed. Chambers v. Chambers, 356 So. 2d 634, 12 ABR 872 (Ala.1978).
APPEAL DISMISSED.
TORBERT, C. J., and JONES, SHORES and BEATTY, JJ., concur.