118 Ind. 31 | Ind. | 1889
This cause was reversed by this court when here before on account of the error of the circuit court in sustaining a demurrer to the complaint. Butt v. Butt, 91 Ind. 305.
As will be seen by a reference to the complaint, as set out in that case, the appellant seeks to redeem the land in controversy by virtue of an agreement alleged to have been made between him and appellee William Butt to extend the time for redemption from a sheriff’s sale. The land had been sold on a decree of foreclosure and bid in by one Hanley, who as
After the return of the cause to the court below the appellee William Butt filed an answer in several paragraphs, the first of which was a general denial, and the others special pleas by way of confession and avoidance. He also filed a cross-complaint in several paragraphs. Demurrers were filed to these affirmative answers, and also to the several paragraphs of the cross-complaint, which were overruled by the court and an exception reserved.
One Barnett was made a party defendant to the action by the permission and order of the court, and he also filed a cross-complaint, to which the appellant filed a demurrer, which was overruled, and he excepted.
The appellant then filed replies to the several answers and answers to the several cross-complaints, and the cause, being at issue, was tried by the court without the intervention of a jury. At the request of the parties the court made a special finding of the facts in the cause, with its conclusions of law thereon, and rendered judgment against the appellant for costs.
The appellant assigns for error in this court: That the-court erred in overruling the demurrer of appellant to the fourth, fifth and sixth paragraphs of the answer of William Butt to the complaint; that the court erred in overruling the demurrer of the appellant to the cross-complaint of William Butt; that the court erred in overruling the demurrer of
As the last error assigned is not discussed in the brief of. counsel for the appellant, under the rules of this court it is waived.
The appellant, in his brief, discusses the other errors at some length, but he makes no objection to the special finding of the facts.
The special finding of facts shows that the agreement for the extension of the time for redemption from the sheriff’s sale set up in the complaint did not exist.
As the answers to which demurrers were overruled are special answers by way of confession and avoidance, it is wholly immaterial as to whether the court erred or not in its rulings. Where the judgment is clearly right on the facts, it will not be reversed on intermediate errors. Foster v. Bringham, 99 Ind. 505; Whitworth v. Ballard, 56 Ind. 279; Mitchell v. Johnson, 60 Ind. 25; McComas v. Haas, 93 Ind. 276; Fell v. Muller, 78 Ind. 507; Mason v. Mason, 102 Ind. 38; Trammel v. Chipman, 74 Ind. 474; Bloomfield R. R. Co. v. Van Slike, 107 Ind. 480.
On the facts found by the circuit court the judgment is clearly right. There is no error in the record for which the judgment of the circuit court should be reversed.
Judgment affirmed.