249 Mo. 608 | Mo. | 1913
The bill is duly verified, and the plaintiff by affidavit states that the bill is not filed in collusion with either of the defendants, and that defendant O. H. Eichards, administrator, is a non-resident of the State of Missouri and cannot be served with the ordinary process of law in this State.
Defendant Troll, administrator, etc., was personally served with process, and defendant Eichards, administrator, etc., was notified of the suit by an order of publication duly published. Defendant Troll filed answer and interplea setting up his claim to the fund and the right to administer thereon. Defendant Eich-ards, by limited and special appearance, filed his plea to the jurisdiction, alleging his non-residence, and that it was not competent for the court to obtain jurisdiction of the person in a cause of the nature of the present suit' merely by publication, and moved the court to dismiss the cause for lack of jurisdiction over him. The circuit court, passing upon the plea to the jurisdiction, made the following order:
“The court, having heard and duly considered defendant 0. H. Eichards’, administrator’s, plea to the jurisdiction of the court heretofore filed herein,.*612 does order that the same be, and is, hereby sustained, and that this cause be, and the same is hereby, dismissed as to said defendant.”
Thereupon defendant Troll, appellant, filed affidavit for an appeal to this court. No further order or judgment was made or entered by the court, except the order granting an appeal to this court and the order allowing the filing of bill of exceptions.
Defendant Richards has filed in this court a motion to dismiss the appeal, stating as grounds therefor, (1) that the judgment or order appealed from is not a final judgment, within the meaning of section 2038, Revised Statutes 1909, and (2) that the appellant is not an “aggrieved party,” within the meaning of said' section, and is not therefore entitled to take an appeal.
Appellant files suggestions in opposition to the motion to dismiss the appeal, and assigns as error the circuit court’s action in sustaining the plea to the jurisdiction.
The appeal is dismissed.
PEE CUEIAM. — The above opinion by Williams, C., is adopted as the opinion of the court.