Stevens v. Nave-McCord Mercantile Co.
Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
Appeal from the District Court of the United States for the District of Colorado. , This is an appeal from an order of dismissal of a petition for the adjudication of Charles W. Stevens, a bankrupt. On March 10, 1905, Martha Stevens filed her .original petition-for the adjudication, but the questions to be considered here arise upon the amended petition and other proceedings.
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Appeal from the District Court of the United States for the District of Colorado. , This is an appeal from an order of dismissal of a petition for the adjudication of Charles W. Stevens, a bankrupt. On March 10, 1905, Martha Stevens filed her .original petition-for the adjudication, but the questions to be considered here arise upon the amended petition and other proceedings. By this amended petition she disclosed these and many other facts: ' On September 22, 1904, and thereafter, Charles W. Stevens was indebted to her for money received by him from her in the sum of about $1,800, and this…
1Opinion of the Court
SANBORN, Circuit Judge,
after stating the case as above, deliv- < ered the opinion of the court.
*73The appellees move to dismiss the appeal because the order oí dismissal was not a final decision, because it was not reviewable by appeal but by petition to revise, and because the appeal was joint and Fowler and Deardorff had no right of review thereby.
A decision which finally determines the rights of parties to secure in that suit the relief they seek is a “final decision,” within the meaning of that term in the act creating the Circuit Courts of Appeals, although it is not a decision of the…
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