Jackson v. Lundy Packing Co.

PHILLIPS, Judge.

This appeal is clearly premature and subject to dismissal. It is from an interlocutory order that disposed of no part of the case and left the entire litigation completely unadjudicated. See Rule 54, N.C. Rules of Civil Procedure; Bailey v. Gooding, 301 N.C. 205, 270 S.E. 2d 431 (1980). Nor is the appeal authorized by the provisions of G.S. 1-277 or G.S. 7A-27(d), because no substantial right of *338the defendant’s would have been lost if the appeal had been delayed until the case is litigated. The only possible harm that defendant could have suffered by delaying its appeal was…