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54 Utah 87

Braby v. Rieban

Utah Supreme Court

Decided March 10, 1919

Utah Supreme Court · decided 1919-03-10

<p>Judgment — Constuuction—Nonsuit—Rbeebence to Findings. Decree that “plaintiffs take nothing by their complaint, that the same be and hereby is dismissed,” rendered pursuant to conclusions of law finding defendants “entitled to an order of nonsuit,” was ,a judgment of nonsuit, and not a decision of the case on its merits.</p>

AKFJRMED · Decided 1919-03-10

WEBER, J.

¶1*88Plaintiffs appeal from a judgment in favor of defendant. The plaintiffs sought to be declared the owners in fee of certain real estate described in the complaint. The trial court held that the complaint failed to state a cause of action, and rendered- judgment accordingly. *

¶2There was no error in the court’s ruling. Plaintiffs say they desire to commence another suit, and by one of their assignments of error have raised the question whether the judgment appealed from is on the merits, or whether it is a judgment of nonsuit. The record does not disclose whether the cause was submitted for final decision; neither was there a motion for nonsuit made; but, in so far as the court in its conclusions of law found defendant “entitled to an order of ponsuit,” and that the decree orders that “plaintiffs take nothing by their complaint, and that the same be and hereby is dismissed,” we are of the opinion that the judgment is one of nonsuit, and that the district court did not decide the case upon its merits.

¶3Judgment affirmed, with costs.

CORFMAN, C. J., and FRICK, GIDEON, and THURMAN, JJ., concur.
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