St. Joseph Data Service, Inc. v. Thomas Jefferson Life Insurance Co. of America

What is a final order for purposes of appealability?

The primal problem which we must untangle is whether or not we have jurisdiction to entertain this appeal on the rather mundane procedural issues posited.

Let us see.

St. Joseph Data Service, Inc., filed an action against Thomas Jefferson Life Insurance Company of America in three separate counts. Counts I and II sought relief for breach of express contract and count III was based on a theory of estoppel. After the court granted defendant’s motion to dismiss counts I and III of the complaint, St. Joseph filed an amended complaint. Again the…