Azzolino v. Dingfelder

HILL, Judge.

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The threshold question we must address is whether the appeals taken by Michael Azzolino and his siblings were timely made. Defendants contend the court’s orders of 14 December 1982 dismissing the children’s claims constituted a final adjudication of those claims because they were separate and distinct from the claims of the parents; that the court’s orders affected a substantial right of the parties; and therefore an appeal from those orders should have been taken within ten days from their entry. Having failed to appeal immediately from the entry of those orders, defendants…