Liberty Trust Co. v. Planters' Bank

In this state, and in practically all the states, no appeal is allowed to the -supremp court from judgments at law, unless the judgment is a final judgment; and1 the same rule is observed in nearly all the states in respect to decrees in chancery. We believe the only exceptions are in those few states which have borrowed from Virginia, said to be the originator of the exception, a, statute providing for the allowance of an appeal from an inter locutory decree in equity, when the interlocutory decree is one-“adjudicating the principles of the cause.” This exceptional statute found its way into…