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66 Ind. 316

Elder v. Sidwell

Indiana Supreme Court

Decided May 15, 1879

Indiana Supreme Court · decided 1879-05-15

<p>Supreme Court. — Appeal on Question of Law Reserved. — Assignment of Error. — Dismissal of Appeal. — Without an assignment of error, as in other cases, an appeal to the Supreme Court on a question of law reserved will he dismissed.</p>

Cited by 2 later decisions — most recently November 1882

2 state decisions

Relies on Hollingsworth v. State ex rel. Harvey · Young v. McLane · Boswell v. State

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Decided 1879-05-15

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Perkins, J.

¶1Appellee sued the appellant, to foreclose a mortgage.

¶2Issue ; trial; and decree for appellee.

¶3Mahala Elder, one of the defendants below, appealed to this court.

¶4The following entry was made in the circuit court:

“And now comes Mahala Elder, and gives notice to the court and parties that she will take this cause to the Supreme Court, on a reserved question of law as to the sufficiency of the complaint upon demurrer filed thereto, and the decision of the court in overruling said demurrer. And the court orders the record for the Supreme Court to embrace the complaint and the demurrer of the said Mahala,” etc.

¶5Ro assignment of error has been filed or made in the Supreme Court. There should have been in this case as well as in others. 2 R. S. 1876, p. 244, sec. 568.

¶6*317We discover nothing in the record rendering such assignment unnecessary. It is the complaint in this court. The appeal must, therefore, be dismissed. Buskirk Prac. 110. See Young v. McLane, 8 Ind. 357; Hollingsworth v. The State, 8 Ind. 257 ; Boswell v. The State, 8 Ind. 499.

¶7Dismissed, at appellant’s costs.

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