Hiatt v. Barker

ON MOTION TO DISMISS

RODGERS, Justice.

A motion to dismiss an appeal from a consent decree entered in the Chancery Court of Forrest County, Mississippi, has been filed and considered by this Court. The consent decree involves the custody of minor children, and the chancellor permitted an appeal with supersedeas.

We are of the opinion, and so hold, that an appeal cannot be taken from a consent decree or judgment of a trial court by one of the parties to the consent decree or judgment. Miss. Code Ann. § 1147 (1956); Guthrie v. Guthrie, 226 Miss. 190, 84 So.2d 158 (1955); Hunter v. Stanford, 198…