Case ID: ind-app_56/html/0546-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "Lairy, J.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Hawn v. Blunt, Auditor.
    [No. 8,866.
    Filed June 26, 1914.]
    1. Highways.— Action to Enjoin Location. — ■ Complaint,.— Failure to Show Interest. — A complaint to enjoin the county auditor from proceeding in the matter of locating a highway is insufficient in the absence of averments showing that plaintiff owns any land affected by the proposed highway, or that he is either a citizen or taxpayer of the township where it is to be located, p. 546.
    Prom Scott Circuit Court; Francis M. Thompson, Judge.
    Action by David R. Hawn against Robert Blunt, as Auditor of Scott County. Prom a judgment for defendant, the plaintiff appeals.
    
      Affirmed.
    
    
      Fippen & Fippen, for appellant.
    
      B. M. Owens, for appellee.
   Lairy, J.

Appellant brought this action against appellee as auditor of Scott County for the purpose of enjoining him from taking further steps in a proceeding for the location of a highway. The complaint was in one paragraph and a demurrer thereto was sustained. Appellant refused to plead further and final judgment was rendered against him for costs. The sufficiency of the complaint is the only question before this court.

The complaint contains no averment that the plaintiff is the owner of any lands affected by the proposed highway, and plaintiff does not allege therein that he is either a citizen or a taxpayer of the township where such proposed highway is to be located. The complaint wholly fails to show any right existing in favor of the plaintiff by reason of which he is entitled to maintain this action. Sparling v. Dwenger (1877), 60 Ind. 72.

The complaint is defective in other particulars, but no useful purpose would be subserved by pointing out such defects in this opinion. The complaint is wholly insufficient and the trial court did not err in sustaining a demurrer thereto. Judgment affirmed.

Note. — Reported In 105 N. E. 785.