Case ID: ind-app_33/html/0119-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "Henley, C. J.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Estate of Guernsey v. Pennington.
    [No. 4,977.
    Filed May 10, 1904.]
    
      Pasties. — Decedents’ Estates. — Executors and, Administrators. — A decedent’s estate can not be a party to an action without some representative.
    From Lake Circuit Court; H. S. Barr, Special Judge.
    Action by William Pennington on a claim against the estate of Chester Guernsey. From a judgment for plaintiff, defendant appeals.
    
      Appeal dismissed.
    
    
      J. F. Meeker, for appellant.
    
      Johannes Kopelke, for appellee.
   Henley, C. J.

Appellee has moved to dismiss this appeal, for the reasons that the record fails to show that the appeal is prosecuted by any proper person, and that the assignment of errors does not contain the full names of tbe parties. Appellee’s objection is well taken. It is a well-established rule in the courts of appeal in this State that the estate of a dead man can not be a party to an action without some representative. To this effect are the’ following decisions: Estate of Peden v. Noland, 45 Ind. 354; Estate of Wells v. Wells, 71 Ind. 509; Estate of Thomas v. Service, 90 Ind. 128; Dunn v. Estate of Evans, 28 Ind. App. 447, and in the recent case of Whisler v. Whisler, 162 Ind. 136, the same rule was announced, and the cases heretofore mentioned were cited with approval.

The appeal is dismissed.