Case Name: IRA C. OEHLER AND OTHERS v. CITY OF ST. PAUL AND OTHERS
Court: Minnesota Supreme Court
Jurisdiction: Minnesota
Decision Date: 1928-03-02
Citations: 174 Minn. 66
Docket Number: No. 26,651
Parties: IRA C. OEHLER AND OTHERS v. CITY OF ST. PAUL AND OTHERS.
Judges: 
Reporter: Minnesota Reports
Volume: 174
Pages: 66–67

Head Matter:
IRA C. OEHLER AND OTHERS v. CITY OF ST. PAUL AND OTHERS.
March 2, 1928.
No. 26,651.
J ohn P. Kyle and Richard E. Kyle, for plaintiffs.
Kenny & Gardner, Arthur A. Stewart and Eugene M. O’Neill, for defendants.
Reported in 218 N. W. 234.

Opinion:
Per Curiam.
This is an action to annul the appointment of defendant Clyde R. May to the position of general superintendent and engineer of the water department of St. Paul, and for further relief. The defend
The statute (§ 9498(4) ) provides that "when upon the entry of an order overruling a demurrer, the trial court shall certify that the question presented by the demurrer is in his opinion important and doubtful, and such certification is ,made part of the order overruling the demurrer, an appeal from such order may be taken."
In this case no appeal was taken. The court is without jurisdiction. The statute contemplates that the court may incorporate a certificate of importance and doubt. If it does, the losing party may appeal. The option is with him. If the court does not certify he cannot appeal. The court does not, as in criminal cases, certify the'proceedings and specific questions to this court. G-. S. 1928, § 10756. Without an appeal we are without jurisdiction, for the review is only by appeal.
The defendants presented and there was allowed a so-called bill of exceptions containing various papers, including the complaint, demurrer and order overruling, along with a number of affidavits, the purport of which we do not stop to examine. The complaint and the demurrer and the order upon the demurrer tell this court what was done. There is no place for a bill of exceptions. The proceedings in this court are dismissed and the case remanded.