81 Ind. App. 419 | Ind. Ct. App. | 1923
Since this appeal, appellee Franklin C. Wagler has been elected as the trustee of appellant Pipe Creek School Township, and on January 1, 1923, succeeded appellant Jesse Mumaugh as such trustee. William Little, Marshall Smith, and S. A. Eshelman have been elected as members of the advisory board of such township and on January 1, 1923, they succeeded appellants George A. Wright, Elmer Pfaff and E. J. Spangler as such advisory board. On their application, such new township officers, by the order of this court, have been substituted as parties appellant. They now file their motion to dismiss this appeal. Eli S. Metzger, Wm. E. Dailey, Jno. N. Sullivan, Ira B. Craft and Aaron B. Metzger, taxpayers of said township, have filed their objections to the dismissal of said appeal, but none of these objectors were parties to the action below nor are they parties to this appeal. Their objections, therefore, though they seem to suggest matters of public interest and necessity and are unchallenged by counter affidavits, cannot be considered. Mears v. Boston, etc., R. Co. (1855), 71 Mass. 371. Only parties to an action or their privies can be heard in the disposition thereof.
Appeal dismissed.