14 Wn.2d 236, M. C. McLENNAN, Appellant, v. THE NEW LIGHT GOLD MINING COMPANY et al., Respondents

[No. 28701. Department Two.     Supreme Court      July 10, 1942.]

M. C. McLENNAN, Appellant, v. THE NEW LIGHT GOLD
          MINING COMPANY et al., Respondents.1

[1] APPEAL AND ERROR - DECISIONS REVIEWABLE - RULINGS ON DEMURRERS. Orders sustaining or overruling demurrers are not appealable.

Appeal from an order of the superior court for Whatcom county, Olson, J., entered December 30, 1941, sustaining a demurrer to a complaint. Appeal dismissed.

J. A. Kavaney, for appellant.

Funkhouser & Twohy and Wilmot W. Garvin, for respondents.

BLAKE, J. -

This is an appeal from an order sustaining a demurrer to the complaint. Respondents Harry P. Kramer and Slate Creek Mining Company, a corporation, move to dismiss the appeal on the ground that the order is not appealable.

[1] It has been repeatedly and consistently held that orders sustaining or overruling demurrers are not appealable. Potvin v. McCorvey, 1 Wash. 389, 25 Pac. 330, 12 L. R. A. 150; Olsen v. Newton, 3 Wash. 429, 30 Pac. 450; Smith v. Seattle & Montana R. Co., 6 Wash.

1 Reported in 127 P. (2d) 415.

[1] See 2 Am. Jur. 892.

                    GRAY v. TARBOX.               237 
 July 1942]          Statement of Case.

295, 32 Pac. 1073; Schutzler v. Times Pub. Co., 88 Wash. 236, 152 Pac. 1018; Le Blank v. Eller, 118 Wash. 353, 203 Pac. 960; Anderson v. East Gate Temple Ass'n, 189 Wash. 221, 64 P. (2d) 510.

Appeal dismissed.

ROBINSON, C. J., BEALS, STEINERT, and JEFFERS, JJ., concur.