Case Name: FEDERATED SECURITY INSURANCE COMPANY, a Utah corporation, Plaintiff and Appellant, v. Isaac Orsen BURTON, a/k/a Orsen Burton, and Horace J. Knowlton, Defendants and Respondents
Court: Utah Supreme Court
Jurisdiction: Utah
Decision Date: 1965-01-19
Citations: 16 Utah 2d 194
Docket Number: No. 10135
Parties: FEDERATED SECURITY INSURANCE COMPANY, a Utah corporation, Plaintiff and Appellant, v. Isaac Orsen BURTON, a/k/a Orsen Burton, and Horace J. Knowlton, Defendants and Respondents.
Judges: McDonough, wade, and callis-TER, JJ., concur.
Reporter: Utah Reports, Second Series
Volume: 16
Pages: 194–195

Head Matter:
398 P.2d 200
FEDERATED SECURITY INSURANCE COMPANY, a Utah corporation, Plaintiff and Appellant, v. Isaac Orsen BURTON, a/k/a Orsen Burton, and Horace J. Knowlton, Defendants and Respondents.
No. 10135.
Supreme Court of Utah.
Jan. 19, 1965.
John F. Piercey, Salt Lake City, for appellant.
Horace J. Knowlton, Salt Lake City, for respondents.

Opinion:
HENRIOD, Chief Justice.
Appeal from "the Court's denial of plaintiff's motion to strike defendants' Objections to Order of Dismissal" (of a counterclaim). The appeal is dismissed with instructions. No costs awarded.
This appeal was not from a final judgment as required by Rule 72, Utah Rules of Civil Procedure, the rule cited by appellant as basis for the appeal, as will appear from the quoted language of appellant's Notice of Appeal set out in the preceding paragraph above.
The trial court generously treated respondent's abortive "Objections to Order of Dismissal" as a motion for new trial, but was in error for two reasons: 1) At that juncture there had been no trial so there could not have been a new one, and 2) the abortive pleading obviously was in no sense a Motion for New Trial under the rules.
The case is remanded with instructions to proceed under the proper rules, in consonance with the conclusions herein expressed.
McDonough, wade, and callis-TER, JJ., concur.
CROCKETT, J., concurs in the result.