20 Ind. 479 | Ind. | 1863
The judgment in this case was rendered in October, 1853. The transcript was filed in the Supreme Court in September, 1856, and process issued to a resident defendant.
A suit is held to be commenced in this State, when the process in it, for the defendant, is regularly delivered to the officer for service. Hancock v. Ritchie, 11 Ind. 48; id. 354. The appeal is not barred by the statute of limitations.
It is claimed that the case is before us upon the evidence, and that the judgment is not supported by the evidence. This is the only point.
If the transcript before us does contain all the evidence, it . shows that the judgment below is right. If it does not contain all the evidence, we must presume that the judgment is right. It does not purport to. contain all the evidence. It does not conform to the rule of this Court. See Branham v. Bradford, 17 Ind. 47.
A point of pleading and practice must be noticed.
To the assignment of errors the appellee answered:
1. In nullo est erratum.
2. That the appeal was not taken within three years, in other wox-ds, the statute of limitations.
It is claimed that the answer of the statute of limitations waived the joinder in error, and that such waiver and plea of the statute operated to admit the errors assigned.
The answer of no error was a demurrer. The answer of the statute was of matter of fact. .
In the nisi prius Courts the answer of fact would be a waiver of a demui'rer to the pleading to which the answer of fact was addressed.
But this rule cannot be applied to proceedings in the Su preme Court.
The first pleading on tne part of the appellant in this Court is an assignment of errors in law. This assignment precedes any answer by the appellee. Yet, as the law allows the defence of the statute and' some other matters of fact, as well as a demurrer in law, to be answered, they must, almost necessarily, be answered simultaneously; at all events, they certainly may be. See the statute cited in 14 Iud. on p. 514. The case of Smith v. Conlan, 14 Ind. 513, so far as it conflicts with this opinion, is overruled.
The judgment is affirmed, with costs.
(1) Petition for rehearing overruled, August 26, 1863.