Beal v. Rent-A-Center of America, Inc.

Lewis, J.:

This is a consolidated appeal by the plaintiffs from an order of the district court dismissing their actions with prejudice.

The defendant argues that this court does not have jurisdiction to hear the appeal since the notice of appeal in this case was not filed within 30 days of the entry of judgment. We will deal first with the issue of jurisdiction.

This issue can be resolved only by resorting to the record and an analysis of the chronology of events at the trial court level. On April 5, 1988, the trial court filed its order dismissing plaintiffs’ petitions with prejudice; on April…