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460 P.2d 216

Ambariantz v. Cunningham

Wyoming Supreme Court

Decided October 31, 1969

Wyoming Supreme Court · decided 1969-10-31

Key passage — most relied on by later courts

“"... It is too well settled to require discussion that there can be no appeal from a judgment against one of multiple parties or from the adjudication of one of multiple claims without an express determination by the trial court as to lack of just reason for delay. Not only are the provisions of Rule 54(b), W.R.C.P., clear, but this court has spoken repeatedly on the subject." [Emphasis supplied]”

quoted by 1 later decision, including Olmstead v. Cattle, Inc.

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Decided 1969-10-31

How this case has been cited

Cited by 5 later decisions — most recently April 2005

5 state decisions

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PER CURIAM.

¶1 Peter Ambariantz filed a complaint against numerous defendants, seeking to quiet title to certain mining claims, restoration of the possession of property, and an accounting. Subsequently, and prior to any disposition of the case, he moved to have some other persons joined as defendants, among them Mickey Cunningham, who thereafter filed an answer, together with an affirmative defense and counterclaim in which he denied plaintiff’s right in Cunningham’s property and asked that the title to an adjoining claim, Green Diamond #16, be quieted in him as against plaintiff and the other defendants. Cunningham then filed a motion for summary judgment with supporting affidavit, which motion was traversed by plaintiff. The court entered summary judgment holding that Cunningham had no right, title, or interest in and to the claims which were the subject of plaintiff’s action hut decreed that the plaintiff and other defendants had no right, title, or interest in and to the Green Diamond # 16. From this judgment plaintiff has appealed, questioning the propriety of the summary judgment, particularly as to the sufficiency of Cunningham’s affidavit.

¶2 The record discloses no disposition of the case by the trial court except as to Cunningham. We have repeatedly held that under the provisions of Rule 54(b), W. R.C.P., there can he no appeal from a judgment against one of multiple parties or from an adjudication of one of multiple claims without an express determination by the trial court as to the lack of just reason for delay. Accordingly, the appeal is dismissed.

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