Court Opinion

ID: 9725359
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-26 11:42:57.501377+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T18:25:14.408520
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MulRONEY, J.
(dissenting) — This appeal is from tbe trial court’s ruling of October 11, 1952, which was as follows: “Plaintiffs’ Motion for Additional Time to Amend and Plead and defendant Florence Gunderson’s Motion to Strike [said motion for additional time], having both been heard and considered, the former Motion is overruled and the latter Motion is sustained.”
This is not an appeal from a final judgment, and leave to appeal has not been granted. There has been no judgment decreeing who has paramount title as between plaintiffs and defendant Gunderson. Sometime after the appeal was perfected (December 18, 1952) the court entered a judgment and decree holding plaintiffs’ title superior to other nonappearing defendants, but this decree states the cause is “expressly continued” as to Florence Gunderson “for further proceedings in accordance with the future opinion of the Iowa Supreme Court.” In other words, no final judgment as to priority of title was ever entered in the trial court. I would dismiss the appeal as not being an appeal from a final adjudication and plaintiffs’ notice of appeal was too late for appeal from the ruling on the motion to dismiss the petition.
Oliver and Smith, JJ., join in this dissent.