Court Opinion

ID: 9584880
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-21 22:53:34.130643+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T15:20:16.056123
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Bell, Chief Judge,
dissenting, I dissent as this court has no jurisdiction over this case, for the "cross appellant” is not an appellee under the Appellate Practice Act. The term "appellee,” although undefined by our Appellate Practice Act, has been defined in other jurisdictions as the party against whom the appeal is taken and who has an interest adverse to setting aside the judgment appealed from. Corey v. Mercantile Ins. Co. of America, 205 Ark. 546 (169 SW2d 655); Rosenthal v. First National Bank of Chicago, 127 Ill. App. 2d 371 (262 NE2d 262). Applying this definition here to Burroughs Corporation, it clearly appears that it is not an appellee and therefore cannot cross appeal for no appeal on any judgment in the court below has been taken against it and it has no interest adverse to setting aside the *625judgment from which the main appeal was taken. I would dismiss the appeal.
I am authorized to state that Judges Quillian and Stolz concur in this dissent.