Case Name: STANDARD STEEL CAR CO. v. THE UNITED STATES
Court: United States Court of Claims
Jurisdiction: United States
Decision Date: 1925-12-07
Citations: 61 Ct. Cl. 391
Docket Number: No. A-307
Parties: STANDARD STEEL CAR CO. v. THE UNITED STATES
Judges: 
Reporter: United States Court of Claims Reports
Volume: 61
Pages: 391–391

Head Matter:
STANDARD STEEL CAR CO. v. THE UNITED STATES
[No. A-307.
Decided December 7, 1925]
Mr. George A. King, on the brief.
Mr. Pant Shipman Andrew's, with whom was Mr. Assistant Attorney General Herman J. Galloway, for the application. Messrs. John G. Ewing, Jerome Michael, James J. Lenihan, and W. S. Ward were on the brief.

Opinion:
Per curiam:
The application for appeal is overruled because the court is of opinion that the statute authorizing appeals relates to final judgments upon the whole case and not to an order sustaining a demurrer to a proposed counterclaim by the Government. Counterclaims may be filed (sec. 145, Judicial Code), and the court is required to render judgment " upon the whole case " (sec. 146). A ruling as to the validity of the counterclaim is interlocutory. The final judgment from which an appeal is authorized has not been entered, and the Government should not be allowed, by appeal, to suspend the further prosecution of the case pending an appeal from this interlocutory order.