Will of Pattison

The following opinions were filed February 9, 1926:

Eschweiler, J.

The respondent challenges the right of the appellants to be now heard on the ground that this court has no jurisdiction to hear and determine because of lack of an appealable order. Appellants, by their notice of appeal recited above, treat that which was designated by the trial court as his “decision and opinion” at the commencement, and his “findings and adjudications” at the end thereof, as an order merely and not as in the nature of a determination or judgment.

Unquestionably it would have been better practice to have had the…