76 Ind. App. 458 | Ind. Ct. App. | 1921
Action by appellant, a corporation, to recover certain real estate owned by it, and which had been pledged to secure the payment of the debt of an individual. The complaint charges in the first and second paragraphs, after alleging corporate existence, that in March, 1910, appellant was the owner of forty-two feet off the whole north end of Lots 3 and 4 in Block No. 1, in the original plat of the town of Kempton, Tip-ton county, Indiana; that one Gossard was the president of appellant; and appellee Ricketts was its secretary;
The third paragraph of complaint sets out the same facts as the first and second paragraphs, and in addition thereto alleges in substance that in March, 1910, said Ricketts filed a pretended complaint in the Tipton Circuit Court in which he alleged that he was the owner of all the stock which had been issued in appellant company ; that the said - company was not the owner of any property, real or personal, and had forfeited its rights, privileges and franchises granted to it by the state, and asked the judgment of the court forfeiting the charter of appellant. Said third paragraph further alleges that no notice was given to appellant by summons or otherwise of the filing and pendency of said action, and that the record of said cause does not show that any summons or other notice was ever issued or served upon appellant; that notwithstanding there were other stock
There was no demurrer to any one of the paragraphs of the complaint. Appellees McMullen and Ricketts each filed a separate answer in abatement in two paragraphs. In the respective first paragraphs it is simply alleged that appellant i^ not now a corporation. In the respective second paragraphs it is alleged that on March 31, 1910, the charter of appellant was forfeited $,nd dissolved by the Tipton Circuit Court, and that by .
There was a trial on the issue presented by the answer in abatement, and a finding and judgment that the action abate, from which, after appellant’s motion for a new trial was overruled, it appeals, assigning as error the court’s action in overruling its respective demurrers to the answers in abatement, and in overruling its motion for a new trial.
The judgment is reversed with instructions to grant a new trial, to sustain the respective demurrers to the pleas in abatement, and for further proceedings.