Paxton v. Paxton
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The Supreme Court dismissed these appeals involving a settlement regarding the distribution of the decedent's estate for lack of appellate jurisdiction, holding that the lower court's order was not final and appealable.
After the decedent died, his widow retained an undivided one-half interest in land holds, and the other one-half interest went into a trust. One of the three children brought three separate actions against two of the three children and the widow, and the parties signed a mediated settlement memorandum. Thereafter, Plaintiff successfully moved in all three cases for the court to enforce the settlement memorandum the court issued an order finding the settlement memorandum to be valid and enforceable. Defendants appealed. The Supreme Court dismissed the appeals for lack of jurisdiction, holding that the order being appealed from was not a final judgment because it did not dispose fully of the underlying cases, which remained pending below.
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