Watson v. Best Financial Services, Inc.

Opinion of the Court by

Justice MINTON.

Kentucky Rules of Civil Procedure (CR) 54.02 allows a trial court dealing with multiple claims or multiple parties in a single action to grant a final judgment as to fewer than all of the claims or parties upon a determination that there is no just reason for delay. In this employment contract case, the trial court used this procedural device in granting a final judgment in favor of the employer on all of the employee’s claims, which left only the employer’s counterclaim in the action. But the employee failed to file his notice of appeal within thirty…