Applegate v. Applegate

JUDGE WILLIAMS

delivered the opinion op the court:

Jas. T. Applegate, being sheriff of Pendleton 'county, appointed Wm. M. Applegate his deputy, and desired the county court to qualify him as such, which the "court refused to do, solely because said William was under twenty-one years' of age; whereupon this appeal was prosecuted.

By section 15, Civil Code, this court has appellate jurisdiction over the final orders and judgments of all other courts of this Commonwealth, subject to the exceptions in section 16.

“A final order either terminates the action itself, decides some matter litigated by…