Plaintiff, in the Circuit Court of Tallapoosa County, here appeals from a judgment of voluntary nonsuit, with bill of exceptions, on account of an adverse ruling of the trial court on pleadings. Smith v. Louisville N. R. Co.,
Appellant contends by assignment of error that the trial court erred in sustaining *Page 445 defendant's demurrer to his complaint as last amended.
The minute entry recites that the plaintiff in open court took a nonsuit, with bill of exceptions, on account of the adverse ruling of the court on the pleadings in the cause. The record shows that a demurrer was refiled to the complaint as amended.
However, no judgment appears in the record sustaining the demurrer to the complaint if it was the intention of the minutes entry to refer to such pleading. This mere reference to a ruling on the demurrer is insufficient to support the assignment of error. In order to review a ruling on demurrer there must be in the record a formal judgment of the court in that respect. Homan v. State of Alabama ex rel. Smith,
There being nothing in the record properly inviting review, the judgment of nonsuit from which this appeal is taken is affirmed.
Affirmed.
LAWSON, MERRILL, HARWOOD and MADDOX, JJ., concur.