159 Ind. 636 | Ind. | 1903
— Appellants bróught this action to review a judgment obtained against them by the appellee. The amended complaint is in two paragraphs, to each of which the appellee demurred separately and severally. The demurrer was sustained to each paragraph of the amended complaint .and appellants excepted.
The only assignment of error is in these words: “The court erred in sustaining the demurrer to the amended complaint.” This assignment assails collectively the separate and distinct rulings of the court on the demurrer to each of the two paragraphs of the amended complaint, and under the well established rule in this State the assignment must fail unless valid as to both. Noe v. Roll, 134 Ind. 115; Black v. Thompson, 136 Ind. 611; Dorsett v. City of Greencastle, 141 Ind. 38; Moore v. Morris, 142 Ind. 354; Saunders v. Montgomery, 143 Ind. 185.
The substance of the first paragraph is as follows: That on August 28, 1898, the defendant, the First National Bank of Huntington, filed in this court its complaint against these plaintiffs for an injunction forbidding the plaintiffs from tearing down, or in any way intérfering with a certain building situate on land therein described. A summons was duly issued and served on the plaintiffs,
A complaint for review of a judgment stands upon the same footing as the complaint in all other causes. To be sufficient it is essential that it exhibit a good cause of action;' that is, show upon its face some prejudicial error of the court in the former trial, to which exception was properly taken and reserved. Accordingly, to constitute a valid complaint for review, enough of the issuable facts of the former case to show the grounds, effect, and limitation of the rulings complained of must be set out in the complaint, together with the nature of the rulings and exceptions, so that
Tested by these principles, the first paragraph of the amended complaint was wholly bad. Not a fact upon which the complaint for injunction rested, is stated; nor a fact from which the court deduced its conclusion of law, and refused appellants a new trial, is set forth in this paragraph of the complaint, and it is very clear that the demurrer thereto was properly sustained.
It follows that the judgment should be affirmed. Judgment affirmed.