25 Ind. App. 687 | Ind. Ct. App. | 1900
—Appellee was plaintiff below, and sued appellant and others to recover for work and labor performed for appellant, the Advance Manufacturing Company, and to foreclose a laborer’s lien under the statute. The complaint avers that on and for some time prior to November 6, 1896, the said manufacturing company, a corporation, was engaged in manufacturing and selling furniture, etc.; that it owned and used a large amount of machinery, tools, .appliances, etc., describing them; that all of said machinery, etc., was located within the buildings and structures constituting the manufacturing plant, and that said buildings, etc., were located upon certain real estate, describing it. The complaint also avers that for two years prior to said 6th of November, 1896, said manufacturing company had been and was hopelessly insolvent; that at no time from June, 1894, to November 6, 1896, or thereafter, was said
Each of the original defendants answered separately, the answer of Kramer being in two paragraphs, ,and that of the manufacturing company and Neerman in four paragraphs. A demurrer to the second paragraph of Kramer’s answer, and to the second and third paragraphs of Neerman’s and the manufacturing company’s answers, was overruled, and a separate demurrer to the fourth paragraphs of answer of the last two named appellants was sustained.
The record shows that all of the appellants prayed an appeal in term time, which was granted upon filing an appeal bond. Appellant, the Advance Manufacturing Company, filed an appeal bond, but neither of the other appellants did. The bond filed shows that the manufacturing company appeals from the judgment rendered against it. The appeal bond was filed July 26, 1899, and the record lodged in this court September 22, 1899. The record shows that the assignment of errors was made when the transcript was filed. Appellants’ brief was filed November 28, 1899. September 26, 1900,.appellants, the Advance Manu
It is urged by counsel that this paper disposes of the case so far as the Advance Manufacturing Company and Neerman are'concerned. We can not take this view of it, unless we treat the paper as a dismissal of the appeal on their part, and this we can not do. As to the right of one or more co-appellants to dismiss his or their appeal, there is no doubt; but here, after all three appellants have appealed and they all have assigned joint errors and filed a joint brief, it is too late for two of them to say that they decline to join in the appeal of their co-appellant. So we must disregard this declination to join in the appeal, and dispose of the case upon the record as though no such paper had been filed.
The first error assigned is that the complaint does not state facts sufficient to constitute a cause of action. As we have seen, the assignment of errors is joint, and it is settled by repeated decisions that a joint assignment of error must be good as to all the appellants who join therein or it will not be good as to any. Sibert v. Copeland, 146 Ind. 387; Armstrong v. Dunn, 143 Ind. 433 ; Carr v. Carr, 137 Ind. 232; Board, etc., v. Fraser, 19 Ind. App. 520; Supreme Council, etc., v. Boyle, 15 Ind. App. 342; Shick v. Citizens, etc., Co., 15 Ind. App. 329; Killian v. State, 15 Ind. App. 261. The complaint is assailed for the first time in this court. The complaint avers that appellee was employed by appellant, the Advance Manufacturing Company, to perform certain manual and mechanical labor for it; that he performed such labor; that it was of a certain value; that the amount claimed was due and unpaid; and a demand is made for judgment in said sum; and that the sum found due be declared a lien, etc. If we concede that
The other specifications in the assignment of error seek to have reviewed the action of the court in overruling the separate demurrers to the fourth paragraphs of the separate answers of appellants, the Advance Manufacturing Company and Neerman, and the overruling of the separate motions for á new trial of all the appellants. Where appellants jointly assign error questioning rulings made on separate demurrers, or overruling separate motions for a new trial, such assignment does not present any question for decision.
The second specification of the assignment of errors affects only the Advance Manufacturing Company; the third
As the record comes to us, it does not present any reversible error. Judgment affirmed. •