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161 Ind. 416

Burke v. Barrett

Indiana Supreme Court

Decided November 18, 1903

Indiana Supreme Court · decided 1903-11-18

From Yigo Circuit Court; J. E. Piety, Judge. Suit by Richard Barrett and others against Mary Burke and others for partition. From a judgment for plaintiffs, defendants appealed to the Appellate Court where the cause was reversed (31 Ind. App. 635), and plaintiffs appeal to Supreme Court, under clause 3, §1337j Burns 1901.

Cited by 1 later decisions — most recently April 1906

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Relies on Smith v. American Crystal Monument Co.

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Appeal dismissed · Decided 1903-11-18

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Hadley, J.

¶1— This is an appeal from the second division of the Appellate Court under clause 3, §1337j Burns 1901, which reads as follows: “In any case decided by either of said divisions of the Appellate Court any losing party shall have the right to appeal to the Supreme Court, only when the amount in controversy, exclusive of costs *417and interests on tlie. judgment of the trial court exceeds $6,000.”

¶2This action is by appellees against appellants for the partition of real estate. The suit involved simply the parting of real estate between tenants in common, and the controversy rested upon the proper construction to be given to the will of John Barrett, deceased. There was no money demand nor money judgment in the case. The judgment appealed from to the Appellate Court is one decreeing partition between the parties as made and reported by the commissioners appointed for that purpose. This court has héld that the “amount in controversy,” as used in the above statute, relates only to money demands and money judgments. Smith v. American, etc., Co., 160 Ind. 141. The appeal therefore can not be entertained.

¶3Appeal dismissed.

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