Opinion ID: 1387045
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Heading: appeal time was triggered by the may 9, 1994 order

Text: The judge-signed instrument, filed below on January 21, 1994, is not completely dispositive of all the issues then pending before the trial court. [6] It amounts to no more than a set of findings cum conclusions coupled with an announcement that the court was left with no other remedy than a return to arbitration. Neither findings of fact with conclusions of law nor a judicial announcement of what judgment might be rendered may constitute the trial court's judgment. [7] Appeal time was hence triggered by the later May 9, 1994 journal entry which sets aside the arbitration award and directs the arbitration process to begin anew. Because the amended petition in error came here within 30 days of that order's filing, the appeal is timely.