Brown v. Brown, 1101
Decision Date | 03 November 1959 |
Docket Number | No. 1101,1101 |
Citation | 121 Vt. 283,155 A.2d 748 |
Parties | Luella T. BROWN v. Lorne T. BROWN. |
Court | Vermont Supreme Court |
Loveland & Hackel, Rutland, for plaintiff.
O'Neill, Delany & Valente, Rutland, for defendant.
Before HOLDEN, SHANGRAW, BARNEY, SMITH, JJ., and SYLVESTER, Superior judge.
The defendant brings this appeal before final judgment seeking a review of action by the court of chancery overruling his demurrer to the plaintiff's complaint. The defendant filed merely a notice of appeal as provided in 12 V.S.A. § 2382. No order or certification was obtained from the court of chancery to pass the cause to this court. The plaintiff has moved to dismiss the appeal for want of such an order.
12 V.S.A. § 2386 provides:
This section requires a discretionary ruling by the court from which the appeal is taken to enable a review of any order prior to final judgment. The disposition of the demurrer was not a final order. Beam v. Fish, 105 Vt. 96, 97, 98, 163 A. 591. Appliance Acceptance Company v. Raymond, 121 Vt. 153, 155, 151 A.2d 316.
Included in 12 V.S.A. § 2382 is the provision: '* * * In cases where appeals are allowed only by permission of court, commission or board, an appeal may be taken only upon such permission.'
It is the plain requirement of the new statutory rules of procedure that a cause cannot pass to this court before final judgment without an order of transfer by the tribunal whose action is sought to be reviewed. Since there has been no permission to review the action of the court below in overruling the defendant's demurrer, the plaintiff's motion to dismiss must be granted.
Motion granted and the appeal dismissed. Cause remanded.
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