149 Ind. 248 | Ind. | 1898
The appellee herein commenced this action in the lower court, making Samuel and Florence B. McCluney, Henry D. Mumert, Peter Nutter, C. Bert Abshire, Christian Blody, and William H. Ernst, auditor of Wells county, Indiana, defendants thereto. The purpose of the suit was to recover a personal judgment of some of the defendants, and obtain a decree foreclosing a mortgage, and declaring the lien thereof to be senior to certain other mortgages held by some of the defendants. The defendant Ernst, as county auditor, appeared and filed an answer and cross-complaint. He made the plaintiff, Williamson, and all of his codefendants, defendants to the cross-complaint. By this cross-action it was sought to foreclose a certain school fund mortgage against all who were made defendants to the cross-action, and to determine and adjust certain liens which they claimed to hold and have against the mortgaged premises, the latter being
Appellant Abshire bases his fifth, sixth, seventh, and eighth assignments of error on the action of the court in overruling his demurrer to the second, third, fourth, and fifth paragraphs of Blody’s answer to the cross-complaint of said appellant. The ninth assignment is based on the court’s decision in overruling appellant’s demurrer to the cross-complaint of Ernst, auditor. By other allegations in his assignment of error he complains of certain other rulings of the court made against him in favor of Ernst and Blody. Appellant has made Samuel and.Florence B. McCluney, Mumert, Nutter, Blody, and Ernst (auditor of the county of Wells, in the State of Indiana), co-appellants in his appeal, and has notified each of said parties to either join him or decline to join as ap
It is insisted by counsel for Blody that- under the issues upon the pleadings in the case, and'according to the judgment rendered, the former was an adverse party to Abshire in the lower court, and under the assignment of error is an adversary of Abshire in this court, and consequently he ought to have been made an appellee, and served with notice as such. It is evident that under the issues in this action as joined between Blody and Abshire, and between the latter and the State of Indiana on the relation of Ernst, auditor, on the several cross-complaints and answers, that each of these parties were adverse to Abshire, in the lower court, upon these issues, and that the interests of both Blody and the State were rendered hostile to Abshire by the judgment and decree of the court. It is also manifestly true that under the assignment of errors both continued to be adversaries of the appellant Ab-shire in this court. As against Abshire, the State of Indiana (which seems to have prevailed, and recovered a judgment against all the parties below), and Blody as well, are benefitted by the judgment of which Abshire complains, and are each interested, at least as against the latter, in maintaining the judgment as rendered; while on the other side, Abshire is interested, not only as against Williamson, the sole appellee herein, but also as against Blody and the
Appellant in this case has taken no steps, nor made any efforts, within the time fixed by the statute for taking appeals, to bring all the necessary parties properly before this court, and such failure, as a general rule, will operate to dismiss an appeal. Holloran v. Midland R. W. Co., supra; Elliott’s App. Proced., section 162.
For the reasons given the appeal is hereby dismissed at the cost of appellant Abshire.