Perkins v. Thompson

Decision Date27 February 1922
Docket Number22426
Citation90 So. 710,127 Miss. 864
CourtMississippi Supreme Court
PartiesPERKINS v. THOMPSON

October, 1921

APPEAL AND ERROR. Appeal will be dismissed where final judgment was not entered by the lower court.

Where the record on appeal shows that final judgment was not rendered by the circuit court, the appeal will be dismissed.

HON. C. P. LONG, Judge.

APPEAL from circuit court of Alcorn county, HON. C. P. LONG, Judge.

Suit by O. D. Perkins against A. D. Thompson, in which a writ of garnishment was issued and defendant filed a petition, setting up that the judgment entered against him was void, and a demurrer to the petition was overruled and an order entered vacating the judgment, and the plaintiff appeals. Appeal dismissed.

Appeal dismissed.

W. J. Lamb, for appellant.

W. C. Sweat, for appellee.

OPINION

COOK, J.

On July 29, 1919, appellant instituted suit on an open account against appellee, and on the same day a summons was personally served on appellee, commanding him to appear at a term of the circuit court to be held on the third Monday of January, 1919. At the January, 1920, term of the court, judgment by default was entered, and on April 28, 1921, a writ of garnishment was issued and served on the Alcorn Electric Light Company. Thereupon appellee appeared and filed a petition, setting up that the judgment entered against him was void for the reason that he was summoned to appear at a date long past the time of the service of the summons, and praying that the judgment be set aside and vacated. Appellant demurred to this petition, and the court overruled this demurrer, and entered an order vacating the judgment, and holding that the suit was a pending cause to be tried on the merits. Thereupon appellant prayed for and was granted an appeal to settle the principles of the case.

The action of the court in holding the suit to be a pending cause was correct, and consequently there was no final judgment from which an appeal may be prosecuted, and therefore the appeal will be dismissed.

Appeal dismissed.

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  • Banks v. City Finance Co., 2001-CA-00862-SCT.
    • United States
    • Mississippi Supreme Court
    • September 5, 2002
    ...statutory provisions, and the basic requirement is that appeals are proper only if from a final judgment. See also Perkins v. Thompson, 127 Miss. 864, 90 So. 710 (1922). There can be no valid appeal until there has been a judgment disposing of the case.... A final judgment has been defined ......
  • Sanford v. Board of Sup'rs, Covington County
    • United States
    • Mississippi Supreme Court
    • November 10, 1982
    ...statutory provisions, and the basic requirement is that appeals are proper only if from a final judgment. See also Perkins v. Thompson, 127 Miss. 864, 90 So. 710 (1921). There can be no valid appeal until there has been a judgment disposing of the case. Our general rule is that in a traditi......
  • Hester, Sheriff v. Copiah County
    • United States
    • Mississippi Supreme Court
    • October 23, 1939
    ...from which an appeal can be prosecuted to this court, and therefore this cause should be dismissed. 3 C. J. 441, par. 258; Perkins v. Thompson, 127 Miss. 864. We of the opinion that whenever an officer's salary or compensation is graduated by statute according to the population that the pop......
  • Williams v. State
    • United States
    • Mississippi Supreme Court
    • February 27, 1922
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