Opinion

Couch v. Rodgers

  • 257 Ala. 560
  • 59 So. 2d 809
  • 1952 Ala. LEXIS 277
Court
Supreme Court of Alabama
Filed
Jun 30, 1952
Status
Published
Author
Livingston
On the bench
Livingston, Brown, Lawson, Stalely
Cited by
5 cases
Authority
More cited than 83.9%

The opinion

LIVINGSTON, Chief Justice.

■Appellant filed this. suit in the Circuit Court of Cullman County, Alabama, for damages for appellees’ refusal to issue him a license to engage in trade of barbering in said county. Appellees’ joint demurrer was sustained by the court below, whereupon the following judgment was entered:

“1951, January 29, Comes the parties by their Attorneys and the Defendant files demurrers to the complaint, and the same having been heard and considered by the Court; it is therefore-ordered, adjudged and decreed By the Court that the demurrers to the Com *561 plaint be and the same are hereby sustained. Comes the Plaintiff by his Attorneys and by leave of the Court enters a non-suit in this cause with bill of exceptions; and the same having been considered by the Court, it is granted.”

The appeal is on the record with no bill of exceptions and the foregoing is all that appears in the record as to said nonsuit. Under Title 7, Section 819, Code 1940, an appeal from a judgment of nonsuit is authorized when necessitated by adyerse rulings of the court. However, as is the case in appeals from final judgments generally, there must be a final judgment disposing of the cause, “putting the case out of court.” Davison v. Stutts, 233 Ala. 491 , 172 So. 600 ; Heffelfinger v. Lane, 239 Ala. 151 , 194 So. 504 . The foregoing judgment entry is not sufficient to support the instant appeal. Lathrop Lumber Co. v. Pioneer Lumber Co., 207 Ala. 522 , 93 So. 427 ; Wallace v. Screws, 225 Ala. 187 , 142 So. 572 ; Gladden v. Columbiana Sav. Bank, 235 Ala. 541 , 180 So. 548 ; Biddle v. Employers Insurance Co. of Alabama, Inc., ante, p. 276, 58 So.2d 596 .

Since the question is one of jurisdiction of this court, we must dismiss the appeal ex mero mo tu. It is so ordered. Appeal dismissed.

BROWN, LAWSON and STALELY, JJ., concur.

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