is an appeal by Lewis E. McClung, Gertie McClung, Olin McCoy and Alta McCoy, from a judgment of the trial court in favor of the City of Bloomington. The appellants have failed to comply with Rule 2-6 аs to the title of the assignment of errors. 1 But since the rule provides, “Failure properly to name parties will not be treated as jurisdictional,” we will dispose of the appеal without requiring its amendment.
The City of Bloomington on May 17, 1950, commеnced an action in the trial court seeking permission tо acquire by purchase certain real estate in Bеnton and Bloomington Townships of Monroe County, to be used in the development of the city’s water supply system, in comрliance with §§ 48-2011 to 48-2017, Burns’ 1950 Replacement (Ch. 369 of the 1947 Acts). On October 18, 1950, the trial court entered is finding and judgment for the City of Bloomington grаnting it permission to acquire by purchase the real estаte for the development of its water supply system.
The City of Bloomington has filed its motion to dismiss the appeal for thе reason that Ch. 369 of the 1947 Acts, §§ 48-2011 to 48-2017, Burns’ 1950 Replacement, was repealed by Ch. 107 of the 1951 Acts (H. B. No. 132). This repealing act, by reason of its emergency clause, became effective on its approval March *421 1, 1951. 2 The appellants have filed no brief in answer to appellees' original brief on the motion to dismiss, and no question is presented as to thе constitutional authority of the General Assembly to repeal Ch. 369 of the 1947 Acts after a judgment had been entered pursuant to the provisions thereof, nor is there any contentiоn here presented that the repeal deprives thеm of any contract or vested property right.
The rights which thе appellants assert on appeal are сreatures of the statute which has now been repeаled with no savings clause as to them. The repeal of Ch. 369 of the 1947 Acts removed the subject matter of the controversy. The appeal here has become moot.
Bullock
v.
Jameson
(1915),
The appeal is dismissed.
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Notes
“In the title to the assignment of errors all parties to the judgment seeking relief by the appeal shall be named as appellants, аnd all parties to the judgment whose interests are adversе to the interests of the appellants shall be named аs appellees.” Rule 2-6, Supreme Court of Indiana.
“Seсtion 1. The act entitled ‘An Act concerning municipal corporations and the acquisition of land or propеrty by such corporations and dealing with land and property or territory or the acquisition of such territory lying within other corporations, and declaring an emergency,’ approved March 14, 1947 is hereby repealed.
“Section 2. Title to all real estate taken or acquired without compliance with the above entitled act or defectivе only on account of the passage of said act, shall be, and the same is hereby validated.” Ch. 107, Acts 1951.