Court Opinion

ID: 9531933
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-07 04:16:08.37239+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T13:28:37.755407
License: Public Domain

Boslaugh, J.,
concurring,
I concur in the opinion of the court dismissing the appeal as premature.
The test of finality is the substance of the decision rather than its form. See 4 Am. Jur. 2d, Appeal and Error, § 51, p. 573. However, it is sometimes difficult to determine whether a decision is interlocutory or final. Some difficulty might be avoided in partial summary judgments if phraseology were used which clearly expressed *277the interlocutory nature of the decision and avoided the implication that a judgment subject to execution had been entered.