71 Ind. App. 58 | Ind. Ct. App. | 1919
— This is an action for damages on an injunction bond given by Walter Stigleman, as principal, and the appellant, as surety, in an action brought by Walter Stigleman against the appellee.
The cause was tried by a jury, and resulted in a judgment being rendered against appellant in the sum of $300. The only error assigned and not waived is that the court erred in overruling appellant’s motion for a new trial.
Appellant’s contentions that the verdict of the jury is not sustained by sufficient evidence and is contrary to law will be considered together. The facts are in substance as follows: On June 20, 1910, Walter Stigleman filed a complaint against the appellee in the Clinton Circuit Court, and on the same day he applied to the court for a temporary restraining order, gave the bond sued on, which was signed by
The said order provided that the defendant, appellee, be notified that an application for a temporary injunction in said cause would be heard on June 24; this order was served on appellee the same day it was issued. No action was taken in said cause on June 24 and nothing further was done until in September, when the appellee appeared and filed his answer.
The cause was submitted to the court for trial, and in January, 1912, the court entered a judgment against the appellee, perpetually enjoining him from cutting or removing said wheat. A new trial being granted, the cause was again tried, and on this second trial the court, on June 6, 1914, made a general finding against the plaintiff in that action and in favor of appellee upon the issues presented by the pleadings, and on the same day rendered a judgment in favor of appellee for costs.
Appellant claims that the evidence shows that no injunction was granted, but that a mere temporary restraining order was granted to be and remain in force until notice thereof be given and a hearing on June 24 of an application for a temporary injunction could be had, and that by the terms of said restraining order, as well as by the law authorizing the same, it expired June 24, leaving the appellee thereafter unrestrained and free to remove and dispose of the wheat in controversy at his will and that appellee could recover only such damages as were the direct
No application was made for a temporary injunction, and nothing was done except to put the cause at issue until December 11, when the cause was submitted to the court for trial. The court found the facts specially, and, after stating its conclusions of law, rendered a judgment against the appellee, wherein it was adjudged-that the “temporary injunction heretofore granted, entered and issued in this cause be, and the same hereby is, made perpetual.” Thus it would appear that the judge who - had issued the temporary restraining order and the parties acted upon the theory that the temporary restraining order was in force and effect, and it was carried into the final judgment, although it was improperly referred ■to as a temporary “injunction.”
Complaint is also made that the court erred'in giving instructions Nos. 3, 4 and 5, tendered by appellee, and in refusing to give No. 5, tendered by appellant. The objection made to Nos. 3 apd 4 is that there was no final judgment in the injunction proceedings. We have held otherwise. These instructions were not objectionable. '
Appellant also contends that the amount of the verdict is excessive, but that contention is also based on the theory that there was no final judgment in the injunction proceedings, and that there could be no recovery for that reason.
There was no error in overruling the motion for a. new trial. Judgment affirmed.