152 N.E. 294 | Ind. Ct. App. | 1926
This was an action by the appellees, a partnership, to recover money alleged to have been paid by the appellees at the special instance and request of the Chicago Thread Manufacturing Company to a creditor of said corporation. The "Chicago Thread Manufacturing Company" and the "Thread Mills Company" were also made parties defendant. The cause was tried by the court and, upon a request in that behalf, it made a special finding of facts and stated conclusions of law thereon. The trial court held that there had been no proper service upon the "Chicago Thread Manufacturing Company" nor any entry of appearance by that company, and the judgment was rendered against the two remaining defendants, from which judgment, this appeal is prosecuted. The errors assigned and presented are those hereinafter considered.
The appellants first present as alleged error the action of the court in refusing to strike out certain interrogatories propounded to the appellants, and the answers thereto. The 1. appellants have entirely failed to set out in their brief filed herein the complaint upon which this case was tried, and, in the absence of said complaint, we cannot say — the said motion being to strike out all interrogatories and the answers thereto — that the court erred in said ruling.
It is next urged that the trial court erred in overruling the motion in arrest of judgment. Here we are met with the same situation as above noted — absence of the complaint from 2. said brief — and, in the absence thereof, we cannot say that there was error in the said ruling. *7
Appellants have assigned as error that "the court erred in its conclusions of law" upon the facts found. The court stated three conclusions of law, the second being, that it had no 3. jurisdiction over the "Chicago Thread Manufacturing Company." The appellants concede that this conclusion was well stated, and as their assignment of error challenged the conclusions of law in gross, being a joint assignment, they tacitly concede that they cannot prevail as to this assignment.
It is next urged that it was error to overrule the motion of the appellants for a new trial. This motion contained 164 specifications. The specifications numbered from 5 to 114, 4. both inclusive, challenged certain specific findings of fact, (but not all of said findings) as not being sustained by the evidence. These several assignments in said motion for a new trial present nothing for our consideration. Major v.Miller (1905),
Appellants next contend that the same questions which they sought to raise under their said assignment of error in conclusions of law are raised by their assignment in their 5. motion for a new trial that the "decision of the court" was contrary to law. We cannot accede to this contention. InBundy v. McClarnon (1889),
Complaint is made and error is charged in the admitting of certain evidence. The special findings of fact and the conclusions of law stated thereon disclose that this case was tried upon the theory that the various changes in corporate name, as disclosed by the evidence, were, in fact, changes in nameonly; that the appellant Thread Mills Company was, in fact, but the old Illinois corporation, Chicago Thread Manufacturing Company, in a new home and wearing a new name. Tried, as the *9 case was, upon this theory, we find no error as to the matters complained of, in the admitting of evidence.
The judgment is affirmed.