Seghetti v. B. F. Berry Coal Co.

Per Curiam. The court below sustained a demurrer to an 'amended declaration filed by plaintiff in error and entered a judgment that defendant recover its costs from the plaintiff and have execution therefor. This is a writ of error sued out by plaintiff below to review that judgment. The judgment is not final. It is not in bar of the action. The abstract states that plaintiff elected to abide by bis amended declaration. This is not sustained by tbe record. Tbe case is still pending in tbe court below and the plaintiff may still elect again to amend bis declaration or be may hereafter elect to abide by tbe amended declaration. Even if plaintiff bad elected to abide by bis amended declaration still there is no final judgment. Tbe judgment should have been that plaintiff take nothing by bis suit and that defendant go hence without day. No such judgment having been entered, tbe judgment for costs is interlocutory only and no appeal or writ of error lies therefrom. We so held in Wilkinson v. Olin, 136 Ill. App. 527; Hartzell v. Maryland Casualty Co., 139 Ill. App. 366, and Williams v. Connors, 149 Ill. App. 129. To tbe same effect is People v. Board of Education, 236 Ill. 154, and Chicago Portrait Co. v. Chicago Crayon Co., 217 Ill. 200. In the latter case, as here, neither party raised the question. There the Appellate Court took jurisdiction and the Supreme Court decided that the Appellate Court had no jurisdiction and dismissed the appeal. For the reasons there stated this writ of error must be dismissed with leave to plaintiff in error to withdraw his record, abstracts and briefs and to defendant in error to withdraw its briefs. Dismissed.