American Mortgage Corp. v. First National Mortgage Co.
| Citation | 345 F.2d 527 |
| Decision Date | 10 May 1965 |
| Docket Number | No. 14689.,14689. |
| Parties | AMERICAN MORTGAGE CORPORATION, Plaintiff, v. FIRST NATIONAL MORTGAGE COMPANY, a Corporation, Joseph Stein, and Leonard B. Stallman, Defendants, and Harris Trust and Savings Bank, Capitol Bank of Chicago, and United of America Bank, Garnishee-Defendants. Leonard B. STALLMAN, Counter-Plaintiff, v. AMERICAN MORTGAGE CORPORATION, Counter-Defendant. |
| Court | United States Courts of Appeals. United States Court of Appeals (7th Circuit) |
Earl G. Schneider, Chicago, Ill., Norman Miller, Michael R. Galasso, Chicago, Ill., Miller, Schneider & Galasso, Chicago Ill., of counsel, for appellants.
Melvin B. Lewis, and Howard W. Minn, Chicago, Ill., for appellee.
Before CASTLE and KILEY, Circuit Judges, and MERCER, District Judge.
Plaintiff by its complaint alleged that First National Mortgage Company, alleged to be a corporation, through its agents, had obtained sums of money from plaintiff through false representations and fraud. The complaint prayed an attachment of bank accounts of First National at the three defendant banks. Attachment under the Illinois statute was ordered, ex parte, pursuant to the prayer of the complaint. Ill.Rev.Stat.1963, c. 11, § 1 et seq.
Defendant, Leonard B. Stallman, entered his appearance in the cause, averring that First National was not a corporation, but was wholly owned by him. He moved to dismiss the attachment. On May 4, 1964, a memorandum order was entered by the trial judge finding that the attachment was providently issued, denying Stallman's motion to dismiss, directing pre-trial discovery and setting the cause for a pre-trial conference. This appeal was then taken by the defendants, Stallman, individually and doing business as First National Mortgage Company, and Joseph Stein.1
Plaintiff filed a motion to dismiss the appeal upon the ground, inter alia, that there is no final judgment in the cause from which an appeal can be taken. On October 12, 1964, we ordered that that motion be heard with the appeal on the merits.
After argument upon the motion and the appeal, and after due consideration of the record and the applicable authorities, we are convinced that the motion must be granted and the appeal dismissed.
The order sought to be appealed is not a final judgment to which appellate jurisdiction attaches under 28 U.S.C. § 1291, and the order is not of the type interlocutory orders for which interlocutory appeals are permitted.2
The principle that piecemeal appeals will not be entertained and that the appeals courts jealously guard their jurisdiction against the imposition of such attempted appeals is so well settled that only a reference to some representative decisions is necessary. E. g., Andrews v. United States, 373 U.S. 334, 339-340, 83 S.Ct. 1236, 10 L.Ed.2d 383; Columbia Broadcasting System v. Amana Refrigeration, Inc., 7 Cir., 271 F.2d 257, 259; Packard Motor Car Co. v. Gem Mfg. Co., 7 Cir., 187 F.2d 65, 66; Winsor v. Daumit, 7 Cir., 179 F.2d 475, 476, 478; Solomon v. Bruchhausen, 2 Cir., 305 F.2d 941, 943.
Defendants argue that an attachment should be treated as a temporary injunction, and that an appeal is proper in this instance by analogy to the temporary injunction...
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