Case Name: Pine Lumber Company v. Covington County
Court: Mississippi Supreme Court
Jurisdiction: Mississippi
Decision Date: 1905-11
Citations: 87 Miss. 706
Docket Number: 
Parties: Pine Lumber Company v. Covington County.
Judges: 
Reporter: Mississippi Reports
Volume: 87
Pages: 706–706

Head Matter:
Pine Lumber Company v. Covington County.
Appeal. Circuit court. Judgment on demurrer.
An appeal does not lie from the judgment of the circuit court over ruling a demurrer to a declaration.
Prom the circuit court of Covington county.
Hon. John it. Enochs, Judge.
Covington county, the appellee, was plaintiff in the court below; the lumber company, the appellant, was defendant there. The defendant undertook to appeal from the judgment' of the court below overruling its demurrer to plaintiff’s declaration.-
R. L. & JE. 8. Dent, for appellant.
Livingston &■ McLcmrin, for appellee.

Opinion:
Truly, J.,
delivered the opinion of the court.
This is an appeal attempted to be taken from a judgment of a circuit court overruling a demurrer to a declaration. The appeal does not lie. Code 1892, § 697, provides that "if the demurrer of the defendant to a declaration be overruled, the court shall give judgment for the plaintiff" unless the defendant make oath that he has a good and substantial defense, in which event the case proceeds to final judgment upon the plea of the defendant.
Tine appeal is dismissed.