Mid-States Sales Co. v. Fugitt Bros. Livestock Co.

CROW, Judge.

This case reaches this court in an abnor-mous posture.

Appellant, Mid-States Sales Company, Inc.,1 brings this appeal from an “Amended Judgment of Partial Summary Judgment” entered by the trial court February 18, 1998. This opinion henceforth refers to that document as “the putative judgment.”

For the reasons set forth hereunder, this court holds the putative judgment unappeala-ble. A chronological account of the events precipitating this appeal is essential to an understanding of that holding.

On August 4, 1989, Appellant tendered a “Second Amended Petition” for filing in the trial…