Case Name: Howard W. McANANY, Jr. and Julia M. McAnany, his wife, Appellants, v. James P. MOELLER, Individually and t/d/b/a Moeller Auto Body and Moeller Auto Sales, and Janet L. Moeller, his wife
Court: Superior Court of Pennsylvania
Jurisdiction: Pennsylvania
Decision Date: 1982-09-03
Citations: 304 Pa. Super. 81
Docket Number: No. 370
Parties: Howard W. McANANY, Jr. and Julia M. McAnany, his wife, Appellants, v. James P. MOELLER, Individually and t/d/b/a Moeller Auto Body and Moeller Auto Sales, and Janet L. Moeller, his wife.
Judges: Before WIEAND, JOHNSON and MONTEMURO, JJ.
Reporter: Pennsylvania Superior Court Reports
Volume: 304
Pages: 81–82

Head Matter:
450 A.2d 110
Howard W. McANANY, Jr. and Julia M. McAnany, his wife, Appellants, v. James P. MOELLER, Individually and t/d/b/a Moeller Auto Body and Moeller Auto Sales, and Janet L. Moeller, his wife.
Superior Court of Pennsylvania.
Argued Oct. 15, 1981.
Filed Sept. 3, 1982.
Charles E. Kurowski, Canonsburg, for appellants.
Carl J. Smith, Jr., Washington, for appellees.
Before WIEAND, JOHNSON and MONTEMURO, JJ.

Opinion:
PER CURIAM:
The instant action was begun by filing of a complaint in Equity which was dismissed on preliminary objections; an amended complaint was again dismissed on preliminary objections, and finally this complaint in assumpsit was filed.
Once again the defendant responded with preliminary objections, which contained three separate counts. The trial court sustained the objections to Count I in part and to Count III in its entirety. Count II remains, as does the action against the husband-defendant in Count I.
As to the merits of the lower court's decision on Counts I and III, we are not at liberty to express an opinion, for this appeal is interlocutory. The jurisdiction for the appeal is predicated on 42 Pa.C.S.A. § 742, which provides that the Superior Court shall have jurisdiction over all final orders of the Courts of Common Pleas. To be final, however, the order must put the appellant out-of-court. We have repeatedly held that dismissal of one or more counts of a multi-count complaint does not put an appellant "out-of-court". Therefore, the present order must be held to be interlocutory and not appealable. Bagshaw v. Vickers, 286 Pa.Super. 246, 428 A.2d 664 (1981); Giannini v. Foy, 279 Pa.Super. 553, 421 A.2d 338 (1980).
Appeal quashed.