35 Ind. 276 | Ind. | 1871
Complaint by the appellees against the appellants, as follows, after entitling the case:
“ Plaintiffs, doing business under the firm name and style of Mayhew & Branham, complain of the defendants, doing business under the name and style of Napier & Voltz, and say that the defendants, on the 16th day of February, 1870,
COPY OF NOTE.
“767.46 Covington, Ind., Feb. 16, 1870.
One day after date, we promise to pay to the order of Mayhew & Branham, seven hundred and sixty-seven and xm dollars, with interest at ten per cent, from date; value received, without any relief from valuation or appraisement laws.
(Signed,) Napier & Voltz.”
Answer of general denial; trial by the court; finding and judgment for the plaintiffs, a new trial being moved for by the defendants and denied.
On the trial, the note described was the only evidence offered.
The appellants assign errors: first, that the complaint does not state facts sufficient, &c.; and second, that the court erred in overruling the motion for a new trial.
There was no demurrer to the complaint, nor motion in arrest of judgment.
The complaint, however, was amply good on demurrer. It charges that the defendants, by their note, a copy of which was set out, promised to pay to the plaintiffs, &c. The note being set out, the allegation is equivalent to a direct allegation that the defendants, by the names of Napier & Voltz, by their note, &c., promised to pay to the plaintiffs, by the names of Mayhew & Branham, the sum mentioned in the note. Hunt v. Raymond, 11 Ind. 215 ; Farley v. Harvey, 14 Ind. 377.
This disposes of the objections made to the complaint.
It is claimed that there should have been evidence shoeing the partnership of the respective parties to the note, or ortherwise identifying them respectively as the makers and
The defendants not having denied under oath the execution of the note by them, nor the names of the payees asset out in the complaint, no proof upon either point was necessaiy other than the note itself, which was sufficient to authorize the recovery. Abernathy v. Reeves, 7 Ind. 306; Rees v, Simons, 10 Ind. 82; Hunt v. Raymond, supra; Hauser v. Smith, 13 Ind. 532; Farley v. Harvey, supra; 2 G. & H. 105, sec. 80.
The judgment below is affirmed, with costs, and ten per cent damages.'