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30 Ind. 434

Hill v. Starkweather

Indiana Supreme Court

Decided November 15, 1868

Indiana Supreme Court · decided 1868-11-15

<p>Judgment. — Appeal after Payment. — The right of appeal is not waived by the voluntary payment of the judgment.</p>

Cited by 2 later decisions — most recently November 1904

2 state decisions

Relies on Felkner v. Scarlet · Armes v. Chappel

Good law ✅— No negative treatment on recordhow we know

Decided 1868-11-15

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Ray, C. J.

¶1The appellee moved in the court below to dismiss an appeal from the judgment of a justice of the peace, “ for the reason that the transcript of the record shows that the judgment, interest, and costs, were fully paid by said plaintiftj voluntarily, prior to his perfecting the appeal in said cause.”

II. D. Wilson and J. D. Osborn, for appellant.A, S. Make and JR. M. Johnson, for appellee.

¶2This motion was sustained. This was error. Armes v. Chappel, 28 Ind. 469, where the case of Dickensheets v. Kaufman was referred to as authority; but the ease not having been fully reported, it will bo found to decide this question, by a reference to that case in 29 Ind. 154.

¶3The motion to dismiss the appeal should have been ovei’ruled.

¶4The judgment is reversed, with costs.

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