Case Name: In the Matter of the ESTATE OF Joseph T. VOELLER, Deceased. Gary HOFFART, Petitioner and Appellant, v. David VOELLER, Elizabeth Voeller, Marie Voeller Sutich, Robert S. Voeller, and Audrey S. Matteson, Respondents and Appellees
Court: North Dakota Supreme Court
Jurisdiction: North Dakota
Decision Date: 1994-06-15
Citations: 517 N.W.2d 631
Docket Number: Civ. No. 930406
Parties: In the Matter of the ESTATE OF Joseph T. VOELLER, Deceased. Gary HOFFART, Petitioner and Appellant, v. David VOELLER, Elizabeth Voeller, Marie Voeller Sutich, Robert S. Voeller, and Audrey S. Matteson, Respondents and Appellees.
Judges: VANDE WALLE, C.J., and SANDSTROM, NEUMANN, LEVINE and MESCHKE, JJ., concur.
Reporter: North Western Reporter 2d
Volume: 517
Pages: 631–632

Head Matter:
In the Matter of the ESTATE OF Joseph T. VOELLER, Deceased. Gary HOFFART, Petitioner and Appellant, v. David VOELLER, Elizabeth Voeller, Marie Voeller Sutich, Robert S. Voeller, and Audrey S. Matteson, Respondents and Appellees.
Civ. No. 930406.
Supreme Court of North Dakota.
June 15, 1994.
Walter M. Lipp, McClusky, for petitioner and appellant. Appearance by Gary Hoffart.
Michael S. Mclntee, Mclntee Law Firm, Towner, for respondents and appellees. Appearance by Elizabeth Voeller.

Opinion:
PER CURIAM.
Gary Hoffart appealed from a summary judgment entered in county court denying Hoffart's petition to probate a codicil to the will of Joseph Voeller, entered on a "Motion for Summary Judgment on Petition for Probate of a Codicil," filed by Voeller's children. Distribution of the estate has not been approved; discharge of the personal representative is not final; no Rule 54(b), NDRCivP, certification has been made. The judgment is a partial summary judgment; it is not final, and it is not appealable. Central Power Elec. Co-op v. C-K, Inc., 512 N.W.2d 711 (N.D.1994); Matter of Estate ofStarcher, 447 N.W.2d 293 (N.D.1989); Matter of Estate of Erickson, 368 N.W.2d 525 (N.D.1985); Cf. Meyer v. City of Dickinson, 397 N.W.2d 460 (N.D.1986).
The appeal is dismissed.
VANDE WALLE, C.J., and SANDSTROM, NEUMANN, LEVINE and MESCHKE, JJ., concur.