32 Ind. 376 | Ind. | 1869
Complaint in three paragraphs by Glass for himself and others, not stockholders in the turnpike company, to restrain the collection of assessments upon property within one and one-half miles of said proposed turnpike. Eish, the treasurer of the county, is also made a party. The record is defective in not disclosing the filing of a demurrer to each paragraph of the' complaint, and the sustaining of the same thereto, and exceptions taken, and judgment thereon. An agreement has been filed correcting the record, however, so far as to show the sustaining of a demurrer to the complaint. As we find that the first paragraph was sufficient, we will only decide the question presented upon that paragraph.
Among other allegations, it contains an averment that the company was organized as “ The Tipton, Tetersburg, and Berlin Turnpike Company •” and that upon application of “ The Tipton, Tetersburg, and Berlin Gravel Road Company,” three persons were appointed to make an assessment of said lands so situate, for the benefit of said company making such application, and that the assessment made in pursuance of said appointment, upon the lands of appellant Glass, which are described, amounts fo the sum of one hundred and seventy-five dollars. The exhibits disclose the organization of the company as described in the complaint, and an exhibit is also made of the proceedings of the board of county commissioners appointing the appraisers upon the application of the “ gravel road company.”
It is insisted by the appellee, that a “ turnpike ” and a “gravel road” are one and the same. This is only true in that a turnpike may include a gravel road or any other
Rut in the class of cases to which the one before us belongs, and where a corporation is required by statute to act for its own benefit, it must do this act in its proper name. This is required to preserve regularity in judicial proceedings, where liens are to be enforced upon lands, and judicial condemnation and sale of property may follow. The delay in requiring a proper application and order is less dangerous than the adoption of so loose a rule as would sustain the corporate action in this case.
The demurrer should have been overruled to the first paragraph of the complaint.
Judgment reversed, with costs, and cause remanded, &c.