149 Ind. 74 | Ind. | 1897
This was an action in ejectment by the appellees, the alleged owners as tenants by entirety, against the appellant for the possession, with damages, of lots eleven and twelve in the town of Carrollton, and a tract described as “A part of the east half of the southeast quarter of section fifteen, in township twenty-four north, of range one east, commencing twelve feet west of the northwest corner of lot number four in the town of Carrollton, Carroll county, Indiana, due west to the west line of said lot of land, and to include all the land heretofore owned by one Henry Sulzer, as recorded in deed record book G, page 117, of the records of Carroll county, Indiana, and all that lies west of the town of Carrollton, and supposed to contain four acres, more or less, in Carroll county, Indiana.” A trial resulted in a special verdict, in the form of interrogatories and answers, and a judgment in favor of the appellees, the verdict and judgment describing said four-acre tract as above described.
The sufficiency of the facts found to support a judgment for any of said lands, and to support a judgment for said four-acre tract is raised by the record and presented by the appellant’s brief. For the appellees, no brief or argument has been filed, but, after six months from the filing of appellant’s brief, and after notice to file briefs, counsel for appellees have declined to file a brief. The fact that the case had once before been in this court, 144 Ind. 604, with a reversal in favor of this appellant, and that this court had suggested the error in the description of the four-acre tract, seems not to have availed to secure a correction of the error, or to elicit from the appellees such attention to the case in this court as would aid us in considering the question involved.
All facts necessary to the recovery of said two lots were returned and judgment against the appellant was proper thereon; but as to the four-acre tract, neither from the complaint, nor from the findings of the jury, could the court render a judgment including a sufficient description.
The judgment of the lower court is therefore reversed, with instructions to render judgment for the appellees as to said lots eleven and twelve, and as to the issues concerning the four-acre tract, to render judgment for costs in favor of the appellant, but to render no judgment as to the ownership or possession of said tract of four acres.
The costs of this appeal are adjudged against the appellees.