Wilson v. Southern Railway Co.

How courts have described this case

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• premature notice of appeal filed ripened upon entry of written orders granting directed verdict
• “if the appeal had been premature by attempting to appeal the oral order granting directed verdict, the notice of appeal would have ‘ripened’ when the written order thereof subsequently was entered”
• the law will not require a futile act

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).