44 Ind. App. 372 | Ind. Ct. App. | 1909
This is an action brought by appellant against appellee, a foreign corporation, to recover for a
The answer seeks to abate the action, for the reasons that appellee had no agent in the county at the time the action was brought, and that Geyer, who was served with summons, was not its agent and never had been its agent.
In the case of Pearson v. French, supra, the court say: “No intendment is to be made in favor of a plea in abatement, but every reasonable intendment should be made in favor of the regularity and sufficiency of the proceedings. And here, as the defendant has not made the writ and officer’s return a part of his plea, by craving oyer, and setting them forth, or indeed, by referring to them, we cannot look beyond the plea to cure any of its defects. ’ ’
Judgment reversed, with instruction to sustain appellant’s demurrer to the plea.