57 Ind. 219 | Ind. | 1877
Cynthia A. Bedunnah, the appellee, sued Frank R. Doman and James D. English, appellants, upon the following complaint:
“ The plaintiff, Cynthia A. Bedunnah, complains of Frank R. Doman and James D. English, and says, that .heretofore, to wit, on the 20th day of July, 1871, said Doman was the sheriff of Dearborn county, Indiana, and that said English was his deputy, and that on the 21st day of July, 1871, there was issued out of the clerk’s ■office of the Dearborn Common Pleas Court, an execution against Ira Kimball, Levin Pritchard and Ralph Smith,.
The defendants answered the general denial and payment. Reply in denial of payment.
Trial by jury; verdict for the plaintiff; motion fora new trial overruled, as was a motion in arrest of judgment; and there was final judgment upon the verdict.
Appeal to this court.
The evidence is not in the record.
The ground of the motion in arrest was, that the complaint contained no cause of action in favor of the plaintiff; and the overruling of that motion is assigned for error here.
If a motion to make the complaint more certain had been made, it should have been sustained.
But no objection to the complaint was taken, nor was a demurrer interposed to it; and the question is, is the complaint good after verdict? It alleges that the money which the plaintiff seeks to recover was originally due to the estate of Ebenezer Bedunnah; that she is the widow of said Ebenezer, and is entitled to the money; that the defendants have received it, and, in effect, admitted that it belongs to the plaintiff, oy fabricating a receipt acknowledging its payment to her by the defendants.. The
Judgment affirmed, with costs.