Lehmann v. Har-Con Corp.

in which Chief Justice PHILLIPS, Justice OWEN, Justice ABBOTT, and Justice O’NEILL joined.

In these two consolidated cases we revisit the persistent problem of determining when a judgment rendered without a conventional trial on the merits is final for purposes of appeal. We consider only cases in which one final and appealable judgment can be rendered and not cases, like some probate and receivership proceedings, in which multiple judgments final for purposes of appeal can be rendered on certain discrete issues.1 And we consider a judgment’s finality only for purposes of appeal and not for…