68 Ind. App. 558 | Ind. Ct. App. | 1918
This is an action brought by appellee in the Washington Circuit Court against Washington county, Indiana, Pierce and Jackson townships in said county, and appellant, to quiet title to certain real estate. The complaint is in a single paragraph iff the usual form. All the defendants, except appellant, filed answers disclaiming any interest in the real estate, and the cause was afterwards dismissed as to such defendants. The issues were closed by an
It will be noted that this is an action to quiet title to real estate. It was begun in the Washington Circuit Court, and transferred to the Scott Circuit Court on a change of venue, where it was finally tried, and the judgment from which this appeal is prosecuted was rendered. These are courts of general jurisdiction, and therefore the facts which give them jurisdiction of a cause need not affirmatively appear on the face of the complaint. Kinnaman v. Kinnaman (1880), 71 Ind. 417; Whittenberger v. Bower (1902), 158 Ind. 673, 63 N. E. 307. It has been held that, when the jurisdiction of such courts depends upon the finding
We find no available error in the record. Judgment affirmed.
Note. — Reported in 121 N. E. 84.