Case Name: John Albin et al., Respondents, v. Seattle Electric Company, Appellant
Court: Washington Supreme Court
Jurisdiction: Washington
Decision Date: 1907-06-11
Citations: 46 Wash. 420
Docket Number: No. 6679
Parties: John Albin et al., Respondents, v. Seattle Electric Company, Appellant.
Judges: 
Reporter: Washington Reports
Volume: 46
Pages: 420–422

Head Matter:
[No. 6679.
Decided June 11, 1907.]
John Albin et al., Respondents, v. Seattle Electric Company, Appellant.
Appeal — Decisions Reviewable — Orders on Pleadings. No appeal lies from an order permitting the filing of an amended complaint.
Same — Review—Questions Presented. An appeal from an order refusing to strike an amended complaint and dismiss the action, does not bring up the question whether the action is barred by the statute of limitations, or the sufficiency of the pleading.
Same — Decisions Reviewable — Grant oe New Trial. An order granting a new trial is not appealable when it is made pursuant to directions of the supreme court in reversing the case on a former appeal.
Appeal from an order of the superior court for King county, Tallman, J., entered November 5, 1906, refusing to strike a complaint and dismiss the action, and granting to plaintiffs a new trial.
Appeal dismissed.
Hughes, McMicken, Dovell <§• Ramsey, for appellant.
John B. Hart and Herbert E. Snook, for respondents.
Reported in 90 Pac. 435.

Opinion:
Root, J.
This case was here once before and may be found reported in 40 Wash. 51, 82 Pac. 145. At that time a judgment in favor of plaintiff was reversed on account of evidence having been admitted as to facts not pleaded in the complaint. Subsequent to that decision, plaintiff asked permission of the superior court to file an amended complaint charging a number of specific acts of negligence not alleged in the original complaint. Over defendant's objection, permission to file said amended complaint was given by the superior court. Defendant then moved to strike the amended complaint and to dismiss the action. This motion was denied by an order which also directed a new trial. Prom this order, the present appeal is prosecuted.
Respondents have moved to dismiss the appeal upon the ground that said order was not appealable. It is urged by appellant that the order permitting the amended complaint to be filed amounted to the substitution- of a new and different cause of action, and that this was inconsistent with the direction of the supreme court, and furthermore not legally permissible for the reason that the statute of limitations had run — the accident having occurred more than three years prior to the time of filing the amended complaint.
An order of the superior court permitting the filing of an amended complaint is not one from which an appeal lies. Ordinarily an order granting a new trial is appealable. The statute so provides, but this statute does not apply where the order granting a new trial is made pursuant to directions of the appellate court. The question as to whether the statute of limitations had run as to the new matters embraced in the amended complaint cannot be brought before this court upon this appeal. Neither can we at this time inquire as to the propriety of permitting the filing of such amended complaint.
Finding no authority for the maintenance of this appeal, the motion for its dismissal is granted.
Hadley, C. J., Fullerton, Rudkin, Crow, Mount, and Dunbar, JJ., concur.