Opinion
No. 17,870.
Filed April 21, 1949.
1. APPEAL — Appellate Jurisdiction — Decisions Reviewable — Final Judgment Necessary — Order Sustaining Motion to Quash Order of Arrest Not Final Judgement. — Trial court's order sustaining defendant's motion to quash order of arrest was not a final judgment as required by statute to appeal, because the issue between the parties was whether or not appellant, as a judgment creditor, was entitled to have an execution against the body of the appellee, and that issue remained undisposed of. Burns' 1946 Replacement, §§ 2-4302, 2-4312, 4-214. p. 246.
2. APPEAL — Appellate Jurisdiction — Decisions Reviewable — Final Judgment Necessary — Interlocutory Order Not Final Judgment. — Interlocutory orders are not final judgments, and appeals therefrom do not lie, except where specifically authorized by statute. Burns' 1946 Replacement, §§ 2-4312, 4-214. p. 246.
3. APPEAL — Appellate Jurisdiction — Appeal from Interlocutory Order — Not Authorized by Statute — Dismissal. — Where appellant appealed from an order sustaining appellee's motion to quash order of arrest issued for execution against the body of appellee, such order was an interlocutory order and not a final judgment as required by statute to appeal, and the appeal would be dismissed. Burns' 1946 Replacement, §§ 2-4312, 4-214. p. 246.
From the St. Joseph Circuit Court, Dan V. Pyle, Judge.
Anthony Boros, and another, as judgment creditors, filed a verified application for execution against the body of Harold S. Mather, and the trial court issued its order for arrest of Mather. Trial Court sustained Mather's motion to quash said order of arrest, and the judgment creditors appeal from such order. Appellee filed motion to dismiss the appeal.
Dismissed. By the court in banc.
Olczak Olczak, of South Bend, for appellants.
Harry S. Taylor and Joseph E. Talbot, both of South Bend, for appellee.
The appellant is a judgment creditor of the appellee and, as such, on August 27, 1948, he filed a verified application in the St. Joseph Circuit Court for execution against the body of the appellee as provided by § 2-4302, Burns' 1946 Replacement. The court thereupon ordered notice to the appellee, returnable on September 17, 1948, to show why such execution should not issue. Notice accordingly was issued and served in due course by the sheriff of St. Joseph County. The appellant included in his verified application for the attachment of the body of the appellee an allegation that said appellee had not been held to special bail in the action in which he procured his judgment and that he has reason to fear, and does fear, that said appellee will leave the state before the trial and determination of the matters alleged in such application. The court thereupon ordered the immediate arrest of the appellee as provided by § 2-4312, Burns' 1946 Replacement.
Upon his arrest the appellee moved to quash such order of arrest and the court sustained the motion. It is from such action of the court that this appeal is taken and we are now 1-3. asked to dismiss the same on the theory that the order complained of is not a final judgment. This contention has merit. The issue between the parties is whether or not the appellant, as a judgment creditor, is entitled to have an execution against the body of the appellee. That issue remains undisposed of. The court merely denied the interlocutory relief afforded by § 2-4312, supra. As interlocutory orders are not final judgments, appeals therefrom do not lie except where specifically authorized by § 4-214, Burns' 1946 Replacement. We find no provision for an appeal from an order of the present character.
Appeal dismissed.
NOTE. — Reported in 85 N.E.2d 269.