27 Ind. 323 | Ind. | 1866
Gamer’s administrator filed a complaint for a review of a judgment against Board, in the court below. The complaint consists of four paragraphs. The alleged error of law complained of in the first paragraph, for which a review is asked, is that there had been two changes of venue granted to the defendant. The case was originally commenced in the Fountain Common Pleas. On the application of the defendant, a change of venue was ordered to the Vermillion Common Pleas. The latter court declined to take jurisdiction" of the cause, and, on the plaintiff’s own motion, ordered it to be certified back to the Fountain Common,, Pleas. On a second application by the defendant, the venue was changed to the Warren Common Pleas. On the motion of the appellant, the case was dismissed for want of jurisdiction. On the appellee’s motion, this latter order was set aside and the case reinstated on the docket of the court below. The parties appeared to the action, and made up the issues, and went to trial without objection. "Without deciding the question whether the defendant, under the code, (2 G. & H., § 208, p. 155,) was entitled to the second order for a change of venue, we think that the first paragraph of the complaint shows no error of law appearing in the proceedings and judgment for which a review can be had. The Warren Common Pleas had jurisdiction of the subject matter of the suit, and the appearance of the plaintiff and defendant gave jurisdiction of the persons of the parties. Cox v. Pruitt, 25 Ind. 90; Judah v. The Trustees of Vincennes University, 23 id. 272. A demurrer to this paragraph was correctly sustained by the court below.
The error of law complained of in the third paragraph of the complaint is, that the court erred in sustaining the defendant’s demurrer to the second paragraph of the plaintiff’s reply to the second paragraph of defendant’s answer. The original eomjffaint consists of two paragraphs. The first is for work and labor of the plaintiff’s intestate. The other is for money had and received. The defendant, for a second paragraph of answer to the first paragraph of the complaint, sets up that the intestate, during all the time mentioned in said first paragraph, and until he joined the army, at the age of eighteen years, was living and residing with defendant and his family; that the intestate took and adopted the ñamé of the defendant, and lived with and worked for defendant, and was supported by him as one of his family, without any agreement, understanding or expec
The fourth and last paragraph of the complaint avers that the answer of the defendant was never made a part of the record by order of court. The transcript of 'the record filed with the complaint shows that the answer was filed in the Warren Common Pleas on the 21st of April, 1864. An order of court is not necessary to make an ans
The judgment is reversed, with costs, and the cause remanded to said court, with directions to overrule the demurrer to the third paragraph of the complaint, and for further proceedings.