Case Name: Stevens v. The Solid Muldoon Printing Company
Court: Colorado Supreme Court
Jurisdiction: Colorado
Decision Date: 1883-12
Citations: 7 Colo. 86
Docket Number: 
Parties: Stevens v. The Solid Muldoon Printing Company.
Judges: 
Reporter: Colorado Reports
Volume: 7
Pages: 86–87

Head Matter:
Stevens v. The Solid Muldoon Printing Company.
A strict compliance with forms is not essential in the entry of judgments; yet to constitute a final judgment, the record must not only indicate that an adjudication took place, but the entry must have been intended as an entry of judgment.
Error to District Court of Ouray County.
Mr. Thomas George, for plaintiff in error.
Messrs. Markham and Patterson, Mr. Wm.- Harrison and Mr. F. C. Goudy, for defendant in error.

Opinion:
Per Curiam:
The record in this case fails to disclose anything which, by the most liberal interpretation, can be termed a final judgment. The nearest approach thereto is in the following language, viz.: "The court' having heard the same, this motion was granted and the action dismissed at plaintiffs costs." This is amere dec-' laration that the action was dismissed at the plaintiff's' costs; it does not profess to be a judgment, neither does it appear therefrom that it was intended to be such. " A strict compliance with forms is not essential in the entry of judgments; yet to constitute a final judgment, the record must not only indicate that an adjudication took place, but the entry must have been intended as an entry, of judgment." Alvord et al. v. McGaughey, 5 Col. 244.
There being no final judgment to either affirm or reverse, the writ of error must be dismissed.
Writ dismissed. •