Court Opinion

ID: 9858784
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-09-24 16:39:01.099823+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T09:55:55.835834
License: Public Domain

ON PETITION FOR REHEARING
Williams Company filed a petition for rehearing contending that by dismissing its appeal we have made the district court’s summary judgment final, there can be no remand, that the action is finished, and the district court’s judgment that the deeds were royalty deeds will be res judicata, directly contrary to our holding that summary judgment was improper because the deeds were ambiguous.
It is apparent from our opinion that we do not consider the judgment a final judgment because no money judgment was entered against Williams Company. See 1 Am.Jur.2d 437, Accounts and Accounting, § 63. “In the phrasing of Rule 54(b), it is obvious that these rulings adjudicate ‘fewer than all of the claims’ and do ‘not terminate the action.’ Therefore, the rulings are ‘subject to revision at any time before the entry of judgment adjudicating all the claims’...” Matter of Estate of Stuckle, 427 N.W.2d 96, 103 (N.D. 1988) (Meschke, J., concurring). Williams Company is entitled to move to reconsider the partial summary judgment entered against it and, if unsuccessful, may raise the issues on appeal from a final judgment entered against it.