Watson v. Sinclaire
Watson v. Sinclaire
Opinion of the Court
This appeal is taken from an order vacating an order appointing the appellant trustee of certain real estate in King county. It appears that Henry P. Sinclaire died in New York state, leaving a will by which the deceased devised certain real property in Seattle to Henry P. Sinclaire,
Respondents move to dismiss the appeal, for the reason that the order appealed from is not a final order and therefore not appealable. This motion must be sustained. The order appealed from did not dismiss the appellant’s application and thereby finally dispose of the same. It simply set aside an order made ex parte and without notice, in a case where notice should have been given because of allegations of fraud. It left the application still pending and the truth of the allegations thereof undetermined. The effect was the same as where a judgment is vacated. We have held such orders not final and not appealable. Nelson v. Denny, 26 Wash. 327, 67 Pac. 78; Metler v. Metler, 28 Wash. 734, 69 Pac. 9; State ex rel. Harris v. Superior Court, 34 Wash. 248, 75 Pac. 809.
The appeal is therefore dismissed.
Root, Crow, Dunbar, Hadley, and Rudkin, JJ., concur.
Reference
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- In the Matter of the Estate of Henry P. Sinclaire, Charles Watson v. Henry P. Sinclaire, Junior
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- Appeal — Pinal Obdebs — Vacation of Ex Paste Obdeb. Upon an application to reappoint a trustee, who alleged that he had been induced to resign through fraud, the vacation of an ex parte order of reappointment, which could only be made on notice, is not appealable as a final order, since it does not dispose of the application.