23 Ind. App. 505 | Ind. Ct. App. | 1899
This was an action brought by the appellee against the appellant to recover damages arising from the alleged negligent killing of appellee’s horses. It appears from the complaint that at the time of the commencement of the action the property of the corporation was in the’ hands of a duly appointed and qualified receiver. The only error assigned is the overruling of the demurrer to the first and second paragraphs of the amended complaint. The only objection pointed out by counsel for appellant is that neither paragraph of complaint avers that leave of court had been obtained to bring the action against the receiver. It seems to us that this objection to the complaint is well taken. Numerous and late decisions of both courts of appeal in this State have held that a receiver can neither sue nor be sued, without leave of the court is first obtained.
In the case of Keen v. Breckenridge, Rec., 96 Ind. 69, the court said: “As a receiver, in the absence of statutory-authority, can neither sue nor be sued without leave of the court by which he was appointed, we think it is essential to aver in the complaint that leave to bring the action had been
We can not presume that the receiver in this case was appointed by a United States Court. An averment that he was so appointed would have been sufficient, and would have avoided the other objection to the complaint that leave to sue had not been first obtained. Under the authorities in this State, we must hold that in the absence of the averment in each paragraph of the complaint that leave to bring the action had been granted by the proper court, both paragraphs of the complaint were insufficient. The judgment is