Githens v. Kimmer

68 Ind. 362 | Ind. | 1879

Scott, J.

Complaint by appellant, against the appellees, as follows:

J esse Githens, plaintiff, complains of Samuel J. Kimmer, John Lively and John R. Eohl, defendants, and says, that heretofore, to wit, on the 10th day of November, 1874, in a cei’tain action then pending in the Circuit Court of Eayette county, Indiana, the defendant John Lively recovered a judgment, by default, against this plaintiff, and, by issue and trial, against defendants Kimmer and Eohl, in the sum of two hundred and one dollars and seventy cents ($201.70), together with costs of said action taxed at fifty dollars ($50). A copy of said judgment is filed with and made a part of this complaint, marked Exhibit 1; that said action was based, and said judgment rendered, upon a promissory note executed by this plaintiff' and the defendants Kimmer and Eohl to defendant Lively ; that said judgment provided that, in the collection thereof, the sheriff should first exhaust the property of this plaintiff and defendant Fohl, before resorting to the property of the defendant Kimmer; that no part of the consideration of the said note, upon which said judgment was rendered, moved to this plaintiff, nor did he derive any profit or benefit therefrom; hut said note was executed by defendant Eohl as principal, and by this plaintiff and the defendant Kimmer as his sureties ■; that defendant Eohl then was. ever since has been, and still is, insolvent and worthless; that plaintiff has been compelled to pay, and has paid, the principal, interest, attorney’s fees and costs of said judgment in full, to’wit, the sum of three hundred dollars, no part of which was contributed by defendant Kimmer; that, by reason of the premises, defendant Kimmer, as his co-surety in said debt, is liable and indebted to plaintiff byway of contribution in a large sum, to wit, three hundred dollars, which is due and unpaid. Prayer for general relief.

Kimmer demurred to the complaint for want of sufficient facts to constitute a cause of action against him ; the demurrer was sustained and exception entered. Judgment for the defendant.

The court erred in sustaining the demurrer to the complaint. Joyce v. Whitney, 57 Ind. 550.

The judgment is reversed, with costs. Cause remanded, with instructions to the circuit court' to overrule the demurrer to the complaint, and for further proceedings in accordance with this opinion.