Case ID: ind_178/html/0476-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "Cox, J.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Falender et al. v. Atkins et al.
    [No. 21,659.
    Filed March 15, 1911.
    Rehearing denied November 20, 1912.]
    1. Appeal.—Record.—Matters Not Apparent from Record.—Ruling on Demurrer.—No Question Presented.—Where the only error assigned is on the ruling of the court in sustaining a demurrer to the complaint, and a search of the record discloses no ruling sustaining such demurrer and no exception by appellant to same, no question is presented and the judgment will be affirmed, p. 477.
    From Superior Court of Marion County (76,142) ; Clarence E. Weir, Judge.
    Action by Samuel Falender and others against Henry C. Atkins and others. From a judgment for defendants, the plaintiffs appeal.
    
      Affirmed.
    
    
      Merrill Moores and Walter Myers, for appellants.
    
      Ferdinand Winter, John C. Ruckelshaus and Michael A. Ryan, for appellees.
   Cox, J.

Appellants sued the city of Indianapolis, Henry C. Atkins, Merritt A. Potter and Thomas R. Kackley for damages to real estate alleged to have resulted from the vacation of a street in a part of the block in which appellants’ property was situated, and the subsequent closing of it by defendants, other than the city, who owned the fee thereof as abutters, which closing left appellants’ property in a cul de sac. Defendants demurred separately to the amended complaint for want of facts. Appellants dismissed as to the city and Kackley, and appeal from a judgment against them for costs, assigning as error that “the court erred in sustaining the demurrers of the defendants, Henry O. Atkins and Merritt A. Potter to the amended complaint. ’ ’

The record shows that the demurrers of the city and of Kackley were sustained, and that appellants dismissed as to them, but a search of the record fails to disclose any ruling of the lower court on the demurrers of Atkins and Potter, or any exceptions thereto taken by appellants. The absence from the record of any rulings sustaining these demurrers, and a like absence of exceptions taken by appellants to such rulings, make a record which presents no question for the consideration of this court and requires an affirmance of the judgment of the lower court. Rittenhause v. Knoop (1894), 9 Ind. App. 126, 36 N. E. 384; Hollis v. Roberts (1900), 25 Ind. App. 426, 58 N. E. 502; Hamilton v. Goddard (1890), 125 Ind. 600, 25 N. E. 543; Smith v. Borden (1903), 160 Ind. 223, 66 N. E. 681.

Judgment affirmed.

Note.—Reported in 94 N. E. 323. See, also, 3 Cyc. 176.