699 S.W.2d 122 | Mo. Ct. App. | 1985
On October 29, 1982, a judgment in the amount of $1,720.00 was entered against Minnie Jacobs, appellant, and Luelinda Richardson in respondent's suit for rent and possession. Fifteen months later, on January 9, 1984, appellant alone filed a petition for review pursuant to Rule 74.32, contending the judgment was invalid as she had received no notice of the October 29, 1982 trial date. After a hearing before an associate circuit judge on March 20, 1984, the petition for review was denied. Appellant filed an application for trial de novo in the circuit court on March 29, 1984. No trial de novo has ever been held.
On September 19, 1984, counsel for appellant filed in this court
We look first to the question of our jurisdiction to entertain this appeal. Rule 81.07 provides that an appellate court may allow a late filing of notice of appeal “only upon motion with notice to adverse parties, filed within six months from the date of final judgment....” Appellant’s attempt to appeal belatedly to this court from the judgment entered October 29, 1982 is obviously without merit as the motion was not filed within 6 months of the date of the final judgment. Moreover, appeal from that judgment, entered by an associate circuit judge without a jury in a Chapter 517 case, does not fall within the purview of Rule 81.07. Supreme Court rules and statutes pertaining to appeals are expressly excluded from application to such cases by section 517.020.2(5), RSMo.1978. State ex rel. Sweet v. Smith, 659 S.W.2d 578, 580 (Mo.App.1983).
Accordingly, whether this be considered as an appeal from the money judgment of October 29, 1982 or from the judgment denying the petition for review, we are without jurisdiction.
Appeal dismissed.
. Counsel for appellant is admonished that this is not "the Appellate Court of the City of St. Louis” nor are we judges of the 8th Circuit Court of Appeals, misnomers appearing upon the documents filed in this court on September 19, 1984.