Lynam v. Welfare Finance Corp.
Lynam v. Welfare Finance Corp.
Opinion of the Court
OPINION
The allegations of the petition are couched in rather extravagant and ill-considered language.
Its effect is that the defendant is a corporation engaged in usury business, charging interest at the rate of 36% per annum; that on or about August 23, 1939, the defendant took a judgment against the plaintiffs in a cause then pending for $216.88; and thereafter had an execution issued, requiring the bailiff to break into the garage of the plaintiffs and unlawfully take plaintiffs’ automobile on said execution: that the automobile was sold by the bailiff and the defendant purchased the same for $315.00, leav
To this petition the defendant filed a demurrer for the reason that the petition did not set forth facts sufficient to constitute a cause of action. The court found the demurrer well taken and sustained the same, to which ruling of the court the plaintiffs excepted.
Thereupon plaintiffs gave notice of appeal to this court from the judgment sustaining the demurrer to plaintiffs’ petition, said appeal being on questions of law.
The alleged error is confined to the single assignment that the trial court erred in sustaining the demurrer filed by the defendant on January 28, 1942.
Section 12223-2 GC describes a final order to the effect that it is an order affecting a substantial right in an action, when in effect it determines the action and prevents a judgment, and that the same may be reviewed, affirmed, modified or reversed as provided in the chapter.
Section 12223-3 GC provides that every final order may be reviewed as provided by law.
An order of the court sustaining a general demurrer is not a final order, as it does not determine the action or prevent a judgment, as the pleading held to be demurrable may be amended.
Guarantee Finance Company v. Russell, 25 Abs 482, decided by this court, opinion by the court, is determinative of the question raised in the instant case. As stated in the reported case: “We cannot entertain an appeal unless there is a final order in the court below.” While the instant case is not before us, we venture the opinion that there was no error in sustaining the demurrer. Counsel may govern their future action in view of this expression on our part. Appeal dismissed.
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