Ryon v. Thomas’s Empirical Analysis

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1 federal appellate · 25 state decisions

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1. ““While the record entry in question contains a finding of certain facts and has some of the characteristics of a final decree in chancery, it is, nevertheless, essentially nothing more than an interlocutory order entered in a matter in fieri, of purely equitable jurisdiction. Such interlocutory orders, when within the jurisdiction of the court, are, as to all matters properly embraced within them, of binding authority so long as they remain in force, but they are within the control of the court making them until the proceeding or cause in which they are made is finally disposed of. “Such orders, when ascertained to be erroneous or an impediment to further rightful proceedings, may and ought to be amended, modified or set aside, as the right of the case requires, either upon direct and summary proceedings instituted for that purpose, or by the court upon its own motion.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Colburn v. McNutt