43 Ind. App. 263 | Ind. Ct. App. | 1908
The appellee instituted a suit in the court below to restrain appellant from using a certain trademark. After the close of the issues appellant took appellee’s examination, under oath, in accordance with the provisions of the statute governing the subject, and in course of the examination propounded certain interrogatories to appellee, which he refused to answer. Thereupon the appellant moved to strike appellee’s complaint from the files. Appellee refusing to comply with the order of the court requiring him to answer the interrogatories in question, the court sustained appellant’s motion, and entered the following order: “And now the plaintiff stands by said motion, and the ruling of the court thereon, and declines
Afterwards, at the same term of court, on motion of appellee, the court modified the order to read as follows: “It is therefore considered and ordered by the court that the complaint of the plaintiff herein be and the same is hereby stricken from the files, whereto the plaintiff excepts, and refuses to plead further, and that the defendant recover his costs, to which judgment and ruling of the court the plaintiff excepts and prays an appeal to the Appellate Court, which is granted, and ninety days given the plaintiff in which to tender his bill of exceptions. And now leave is given either party to withdraw his pleadings, filed by him respectively,” etc.
The judgment of the court below is affirmed.