Martinson v. Raugutt, 10534
Decision Date | 29 March 1984 |
Docket Number | No. 10534,10534 |
Citation | 346 N.W.2d 289 |
Parties | Michael A. MARTINSON, Plaintiff and Appellant, v. Walter RAUGUTT, in his official capacity as Sheriff of Dickey County, and First National Bank of Oakes, North Dakota, a corporation, Defendants and Appellees. Civ. |
Court | North Dakota Supreme Court |
Fleming & DuBois, Cavalier, for plaintiff and appellant; argued by Neil W. Fleming, Cavalier.
Tenneson, Serkland, Lundberg, Erickson & Marcil, Fargo, for defendant and appellee First National Bank of Oakes; argued by Roger J. Minch, Fargo.
James N. Purdy, State's Atty., Ellendale, for defendant and appellee Walter Raugutt.
Martinson has appealed from a judgment that only partially disposes of an action in which "more than one claim for relief is presented ...." Rule 54(b), NDRCivP. We dismiss the appeal.
While neither party has questioned the appealability of the judgment in issue, "[i]t is the duty of this Court to dismiss an appeal on our own motion if we conclude that the attempted appeal fails to grant jurisdiction." Hennebry v. Hoy, 343 N.W.2d 87, 89 (N.D.1983).
Our review of the record presented to us discloses that First National Bank, in addition to answering Martinson's amended complaint, interposed two counterclaims. The record before us does not indicate any adjudication or other disposition of those counterclaims. Nor does the record presented contain a Rule 54(b), NDRCivP, "express determination that there is no just reason for delay ...."
As we recently said in Anderson v. State, 344 N.W.2d 489 (N.D.1984):
(Citation omitted.)
Absent a Rule 54(b) determination, "a decision of the district court, however designated, which fails to adjudicate all claims of all the parties cannot be entered as a final appealable judgment." Striegel v. Dakota Hills, Inc., 343 N.W.2d 785, 786 (N.D.1984).
Because the judgment appealed from leaves the Bank's...
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