27 Ind. App. 79 | Ind. Ct. App. | 1901
— Appellee brought this action to foreclose a chattel mortgage executed to him by appellant Hadley to secure the payment of three promissory notes. Appellants Gaar, Scott & Company and Hornbrook were made parties, it being alleged that they claimed an interest in the chattels mortgaged. The notes and mortgage weré made parts of the complaint as exhibits A, B, O, and D, respectively. The complaint was in one paragraph to which a demurrer for want of facts was sustained and leave given to amend.
The record next shows the following order-book entry, after the title and number of the case: “Come the parties and the plaintiff files his amended complaint”. Paragraph
The record shows that appellant Hornbrook demurred to each paragraph of the amended complaint for want of facts, and that the court sustained the demurrer to the first, and overruled it as to the second. The record sets out but one paragraph of complaint after leave was granted to amend, although it shows that a demurrer .was filed to each paragraph, and sustained to one, and overruled as to the other, as above stated.
The cause was put at issue and trial had resulting in judgment against Hadley in favor of appellee for the principal and interest of the notes and attorney’s fee, and the foreclosure of the mortgage and sale of the property to pay the same. A motion of appellant Hornbrook for a new trial was overruled. The only error assigned upon this appeal is the overruling of appellant Hornbrook’s' separate demurrer to the second paragraph of the complaint. The objections to this paragraph are that the mortgage was not filed with the complaint and that it was not recorded within ten days after its execution.
Is the mortgage a part of the complaint as an exhibit? The record does not seem to be complete. Some one has
It is true, as stated by counsel for appellant, that when a demurrer is sustained to a pleading, that pleading, with its exhibits, is taken out of the record.
It appears in the case at bar that the notes and mortgage were filed with the complaint as exhibits A, B, O, and D, They were filed with the second paragraph as exhibits E, E, G, and H. The second paragraph alleges that certain exhibits are filed with it. In the record these exhibits are found and are clearly identified as those named in the complaint. Exhibits -E, E, G, and TI, filed with the second paragraph are in the record.
As to the other objection urged to the complaint, it will be noticed that it is alleged that although the mortgage was signed and acknowledged on the 25th of June, it was not delivered until August 4, 1897, and that it was recorded on the same day. Delivery was necessary to its execution. The statute requires that a chattel mortgage must be filed for record in the office of the recorder of the proper county within ten days of its execution. As there was no execution until its delivery, the mortgage was recorded in time.
Judgment affirmed.