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115 Ind. App. 67

56 N.E.2d 505

Scaros v. Chacker

Indiana Court of Appeals

Decided September 28, 1944

Indiana Court of Appeals · decided 1944-09-28

Key passage — most relied on by later courts

““It is a general rule that an order, judgment, or decree, entered by the court upon the consent of the parties litigant, being in the nature of a contract to which the court has given its formal approval, cannot subsequently be opened, changed, or set aside without the assent of the parties, in the absence of fraud, mutual mistake, or actual absence of consent, and then only by an appropriate legal proceeding.””

quoted by 1 later decision, including Lincoln v. Estate of Smiley

““The party obtaining judgment shall not take an appeal after receiving any money paid or collected thereon.””

quoted by 1 later decision, including 125 Ind. App. 658 - Smith v. Smith

Relies on Beard v. Hosier · State ex rel. Nave v. Newlin · 106 Ind. App. 457 - Wyncoop, Admr. v. Laughner

Good law ✅— No negative treatment on recordhow we know

Decided 1944-09-28

How this case has been cited

Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently June 1999

8 state decisions

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Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.

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Royse, J.

¶1 — Appellant seeks to prosecute this appeal from an agreed judgment of the Lake Circuit Court in an action there involving a partnership between the parties hereto. After the judgment, which shows on its face that it was made by the court on the agreement of the parties, appellant filed what he denominated a motion for a new trial in which he averred that he had not agreed to the judgment, that it was obtained by fraud, and for the further reasons that the finding and decision of the court is not sustained by sufficient evidence and is contrary to law. After hearing evidence on this motion it was overruled by the trial court.

¶2 Appellee has filed his motion to dismiss this appeal. The motion contains several specifications. We deem it necessary to consider only two of these. (1) This is a purported appeal from an agreed judgment; (2) that the purported transcript shows upon its face that appellant’s objections were denied after a three day hearing by the trial court, and the evidence supporting the court’s decision is not made a part of the record herein.

¶3 “It is a general rule that an order, judgment, or decree, entered by the court upon the consent of the parties litigant, being in the nature of a contract to which the court has given its formal approval, cannot subsequently be opened, changed, or set aside without the assent of the parties, in the absence of fraud, mutual mistake, or actual absence of consent, and then only by an appropriate legal proceeding.” 139 A. L. R. 422, and authorities cited under Point II. See also, McMahan v. McMahan (1895), 142 *69 Ind. 110, 40 N. E. 661; Shannon v. Abshire (1924), 81 Ind. App. 299, 141 N. E. 621.

¶4 The question of the trial court’s ruling on the motion for a new trial requires a consideration of the evidence. No bill of exceptions containing the evidence heard by the trial court on this question has been filed. Therefore, no question has been presented for our consideration.

¶5 3. Moreover, in a supplemental motion to dismiss this appeal appellee has filed the certified record of the clerk of the Lake Circuit Court showing that appellant personally received and receipted for the sum of $392, which was part of the benefits granted him in the judgment he here seeks to attack. It is provided by § 2-3201, Burns’ 1933, in part, as follows: “The party obtaining judgment shall not take an appeal after receiving any money paid or collected thereon.” Appellant, having accepted benefits from the judgment herein, cannot now have that judgment reversed. Beard et al. v. Hosier et al. (1915), 58 Ind. App. 14, 107 N. E. 558; Wyncoop, Administrator et al. v. Laughner et al. (1939), 106 Ind. App. 457, 19 N. E. (2d) 486.

¶6 For the reasons herein set out, the appeal must be dismissed.

¶7 Note. — Reported in 56 N. E. (2d) 505.

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