Pittsburgh, Cincinnati, Chicago & St. Louis Railway Co. v. Johnson

99 N.E. 508, 52 Ind. App. 457, 1912 Ind. App. LEXIS 254
Indiana Court of Appeals·Decided October 18, 1912·No. No. 7,671·Published·Cited by 2 cases

Opinion

Hottel, C. J.

This is a suit begun by appellant to enjoin the enforcement of an execution in favor of appellee, Johnson, in the hands of appellee, Sanders, sheriff. Appellee, Johnson, will be referred to as appellee.

The issues of fact in the case were presented by. a complaint in two paragraphs, the first of which was' dismissed after trial; neither paragraph was denied, but each was specially answered. A demurrer to each answer was overruled. A reply in denial and special replies were filed. After the case had proceeded to trial appellee, over appellant’s objection, filed a cross-complajnt in two paragraphs. After a motion to strike out each of these paragraphs had been overruled, a general denial was filed, and the trial of the cause concluded. To set out the substance of these various pleadings would extend this opinion to an unreasonable length. We think it sufficient to say that the issue tendered by the complaint was, as expressed by appellant in its brief, “whether any judgment had ever been rendered” in the original action in which the execution was issued. [460] The issue on the first paragraph of the cross-complaint was whether the trial court in s¿ud original action had, in fact, announced and rendered the judgment in said action appearing in the record entry of October 8, 1908, prepared by the clerk of said court, and whether the same should be read in open court and signed by the court nunc pro tunc. The second paragraph of the complaint differed from the first, in that it proceeded on the theory that the judgment on which the execution had issued was announced and rendered in open court on October 8, 14908, and had been entered by the clerk under the order of court, and that the court in term, to wit, on October 9, 1908, intending to sign the record of the entire proceedings had on October 8, by inadvertence and mistake, signed the same before the close of the day’s proceedings and immediately before the entry containing said judgment here involved. At the request of the parties the court made a special, finding of facts with conclusions of law thereon, and entered judgment enjoining appellees "from levying said execution on the property of the plaintiff”, and ordered that the judgment rendered on October 8, 1908 (being the judgment in said original action upon which the execution was issued), "be and the same is a valid and subsisting judgment and that the same be read in open court and signed by the judge which is now done and said proceedings on the 8th day of October, 1908, are now read in open court by the judge nunc pro tunc which reading and signing are now done in open court.”

This appeal is prosecuted from that part of said judgment rendered on the cross-complaint. The errors relied on are : (1) In overruling appellant’s motion to strike out the cross-complaint of appellee; (2) in permitting the paper called a cross-complaint to be filed by appellee; (3) in ovei’ruling appellant’s demurrer to the second paragraph of the answer of appellee to the second paragraph of appellant’s complaint; (4) in its second conclusion of law on the facts specially found; (5) in its third conclusion of law on [461] the facts specially found; (6) in overruling appellant’s motion for a new trial; (7), (8), (9), (10) in the rulings of the court on the several specifications of appellant’s motion to modify the judgment; (11) in that the cross-complaint does not state facts sufficient to constitute a cause of action.

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Pittsburgh, Cincinnati, Chicago & St. Louis Railway Co. v. Johnson, 99 N.E. 508, 52 Ind. App. 457, 1912 Ind. App. LEXIS 254 (Ind. Ct. App. 1912).

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