Millies v. Millies

The question of what is or is not a judgment entry from which an appeal will lie, and from which an appeal must -be filed in timely fashion, is frequently liti*44gated. Civ. R. 581 was intended to resolve “the old, old question of when is a judgment a judgment.” 11 Wright, and Miller, Federal Practice and Procedure: Civil, Section 2781, citing Cedar Creek Oil & Gas Co. v. Fidelity Gas Co. (C. A. 9, 1956), 238 F. 2d 298. However, “[t]here are no hard and fast rules for determining what is a judgment; past cases have set certain boundaries and announced generalizations, but essentially every case…