Case Name: MEYER v. OWENS ET AL.
Court: Supreme Court of South Carolina
Jurisdiction: South Carolina
Decision Date: 1918-02-09
Citations: 109 S.C. 111
Docket Number: 9903
Parties: MEYER v. OWENS ET AL.
Judges: 
Reporter: South Carolina Reports
Volume: 109
Pages: 111–112

Head Matter:
9903
MEYER v. OWENS ET AL.
(95 S. E. 344.)
.appeal and Error—Decisions Reviewable—Demurrer.—An order refusing to strike out a demurrer to the complaint as frivolous is not appealable.
Before Si-iipp, J., Richland, November 10, 1916.
Affirmed.
Action by Eliza J. Meyer against Lawrence B. Owens •and others. From an order refusing to strike a demurrer to the complaint, plaintiff appeals.
Mr. D. W. Robinson, for appellant,
cites: As to joinder of causes of action: Code of Procedure, sec. 218; 70 S. C. 253; 29 S. C. 407, 412-13; 105 S. C. 80; 72 S. C. 387. As to right of trial by jury: Code of Civil Procedure, sec. 312; 23 S. C. 370; 43 S. C. 192; 37 S. C. 169. Frivolous pleadings: Code, sec. 306; 37 S. C. 607; 2 S. C. 427; Black’s Law Die. 526; 90 S. C. 160; 91 S. C. 864.
Messrs. Melton & Belser, for respondents,
cite: As to joinder of causes of action: Code, sec. 218; 23 Cyc. 428; 30 S. C. 114; 31 Cyc. 885-6-888-887; 23 Cyc. 431-432 ; 23 Tex. Civ. App. 504; 41 Mo. 274; 51 Kan. 617 (cited 1 Encyc. P. & P. 209) ; 45 Iowa 315 (cited 1 Encyc. P. & P. 209); 23 Cyc. 428; 29 S. C. 412-13; 70 S. C. 253. As to frivolous demurrer: 6 Ency. PI. & Pr. 685-7; 46 Minn. 208 (cited 6 Encyc. PI. & Pr., p. 387).
February 9, 1918.

Opinion:
The opinion of the Court was delivered by
Mr. Justice Hydrick.
Plaintiff appeals from an order refusing to strike out a demurrer to the complaint as frivolous.
The order is not appealable. Some of the reasons why such an order is net appealable are set forth in the cases cited in Woodward v. Woodward, 87 S. C. 247, 69 S. E. 232. They need not be repeated here. The principal reason is that such an order does not affect the merits, and an appeal from it causes unnecessary delay in the determination of the merits.
Appeal dismissed.