Court Opinion

ID: 9719221
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-26 07:46:01.975711+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T18:24:05.257645
License: Public Domain

SCHUMACHER, Judge
(dissenting).
I respectfully dissent. The majority’s decision runs counter to our mandate to liberally construe notices of appeal in favor of their sufficiency. See Kelly v. Kelly, 371 N.W.2d 193, 195 (Minn.1985) (notice of appeal is not insufficient due to clerical errors or defects which could not have been misleading). Here, the order denying a new trial was clearly appealable. The order should not lose this status merely because entry of judgment was directed. When an order is otherwise appealable, and no party has been misled, a direction for entry of judgment should not preclude appealability of the order. To hold otherwise only results, as here, in unnecessary delay and increased costs.