Case Name: Samuel P. Woodburn v. E. C. Jones
Court: Supreme Court of Appeals of West Virginia
Jurisdiction: West Virginia
Decision Date: 1926-09-21
Citations: 102 W. Va. 191
Docket Number: No. 5303
Parties: Samuel P. Woodburn v. E. C. Jones
Judges: 
Reporter: West Virginia Supreme Court
Volume: 102
Pages: 191–192

Head Matter:
CHARLESTON.
Samuel P. Woodburn v. E. C. Jones
(No. 5303)
Submitted October 6, 1925.
Decided September 21, 1926.
Underwood & Moore, for plaintiff in error.
M. II. Wills for defendant in error.

Opinion:
Litz, President :
This is an 'action of trespass on the case for malpractice. On the trial the court directed a verdict for the defendant, and entered judgment for costs in favor of the defendant. Prom the judgment the plaintiff obtained a writ of error. The defendant has filed a motion to dismiss the writ as having been improvidently awarded.
As the trial court did not enter a judgment of nil capia! the order was not final, and the motion must be sustained. Hunt v. Mounts, 96 W. Va. 143; Kirk v. Camden Interstate Railway Co., 66 W. Va. 486.
Dismissed as improvidently awarded.