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6 Mont. 30

Murphy v. King

Montana Supreme Court

Decided January 15, 1886

Montana Supreme Court · decided 1886-01-15

<p>Practice — Order dismissing appeal — Judgment must be entered, on. — An entry in the record of the district court, granting a motion to dismiss an appeal from the probate court, is not a judgment. In order to enable the party against whom, the motion was granted to appeal, judgment-must have been entered in pursuance of such order.</p>

Cited by 2 later decisions — most recently March 1905

2 state decisions

Relies on Owen v. McCormick

Good law ✅— No negative treatment on recordhow we know

Decided 1886-01-15

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Galbraith, J.

¶1This purports to be an appeal from the judgment in the district court, dismissing an appeal from a judgment rendered in the probate court. Upon án exam*31ination of tlie record, we do not find that a judgment was ever rendered in the case. The only proceeding appearing in the transcript before us which has any appearance of a judgment is the following: “ And thereupon, and on the 11th day of April, 1885, said court rendered the judgment dismissing said appeal, which said judgment is in the words and figures following, to wit, ‘Motion to dismiss appeal granted.’ ”

¶2This is not a judgment. It is not an appealable order. B. S. 1st div. secs. 408-431.

¶3In order to enable the party to appeal, judgment should have been rendered, in pursuance of this order, against him.

¶4In Owen v. McCormick, 5 Mont. 255, which was a motion to dismiss the complaint from the files, and overruling a motion to allow it to be amended, it was held that “it was necessary that something more should be done before it could be said that a final judgment was rendered in the action. For aught that appears in the transcript, this action is still pending in the district court.”

¶5So in this case, for aught that appears in the transcript, it may still be pending in the district court for the purpose of having judgment rendered on the order granting the ■ motion to dismiss the appeal.

¶6There is no bill of exceptions, nor any action or order of the court duly authenticated. Therefore there is nothing in the record before us which we can consider.

¶7Order dismissing the appeal is affirmed.

¶8Judgment affirmed.

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