Air Compressors, Inc. v. Big Chief Construction Co.

The Court, ex proprio motu, has examined the record on appeal and concluded that the appeal taken therein must be dismissed as premature because no final judgment was signed by the district judge until after the appeal was perfected and the record lodged with this Court.

The judgment from which the appeal was taken was rendered on June 23, 1975, but the district judge did not sign a formal judgment until March 22, 1976. Before the final judgment was signed the appellant had obtained an order of appeal on July 23, 1975, and perfected the appeal by depositing with the Clerk of Court the required…