888 So. 2d 1248 - Moore v. State’s Empirical Analysis

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1. ““ ‘ “It is a well established rule that, with limited exceptions, an appeal will lie only from a final judgment which determines the issues before the court and ascertains and declares the rights of the parties involved.” ’ Owens v. Owens, 739 So.2d 511, 513 (Ala.Civ.App.1999) (quoting Taylor v. Taylor, 398 So.2d 267, 269 (Ala.1981)). This court has also stated: ‘A final judgment is one that completely adjudicates all matters in controversy between all the parties.’ Eubanks v. McCollum, 828 So.2d 935, 937 (Ala.Civ.App.2002). Moreover, ‘[a]n order that does not dispose of all claims or determine the rights and liabilities of all the parties to an action is not a final judgment.’ Id.; see also Adams v. NaphCare, Inc., 869 So.2d 1179, 1181 (Ala.Civ.App.2003) (appeal by inmate in his action against medical-services provider and prison warden was dismissed because trial court merely entered order granting provider’s summary-judgment motion and denying inmate’s summary-judgment motion without ruling on claims against warden or certifying its order as final pursuant to Rule 54(b), Ala. R. Civ. R). “Although this case is not a perfect analogy to a case in which there is an appeal from a partial summary judgment, the fact that the trial court transferred all of Moore’s claims to its criminal division indicates that none of Moore’s claims has been finally adjudicated. This case is more similar to those cases where a trial court transferred an action from a court of law to a court of eq”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Walker v. State