Case Name: Bottema v. Tracy
Court: Appellate Court of Indiana
Jurisdiction: Indiana
Decision Date: 1915-02-16
Citations: 58 Ind. App. 96
Docket Number: No. 8,494
Parties: Bottema v. Tracy.
Judges: 
Reporter: Indiana Court of Appeals Reports
Volume: 58
Pages: 96–97

Head Matter:
Bottema v. Tracy.
[No. 8,494.
Filed February 16, 1915.]
1. Appeal. — Parties.—Dismissal.—Where all the parties to the judgment below, who may be affected by an appeal, are not made parties to the appeal, a dismissal is required for lack of jurisdiction. p. 96.
2. Appeal.- — Briefs.—Questions ReviewaWe. — No question is presented on the overruling of a demurrer to a plea in abatement, and of a motion for a new trial, where neither the plea, the pleading to which it was addressed, the demurrer, the motion for a new trial, nor the substance of either, is set forth in appellant’s brief, p. 97.
From Morgan Circuit Court; Joseph W. Williams, Judge.
Action by Cassius M. Bottema against Lewis F. Tracy and others. From the judgment rendered, the plaintiff appeals.
Appeal dismissed.
L. E. Richey and Grubbs & Grubbs, for appellant.
McNutt & Bain and White & Owens, for appellees.

Opinion:
Ibach, J.
No questions are presented in this appeal to be considered.
There was a judgment in favor of three parties, each of whom would be affected by a reversal of the ease, but in this vacation appeal, only one of these parties is named as an appellant and made a party to the appeal. Since all parties -to a judgment who would be affected by an appeal must be made parties to the appeal, this cause must be dismissed on that ground, for lack of jurisdiction. Souers v. Walter (1912), 178 Ind. 599, 99 N. E. 1002; Ewbank's Manual §149.
Further, appellant has assigned as error the sustaining of a demurrer to a plea in abatement, and the overruling of a motion for new trial, but neither the plea in abatement nor its substance, the pleading to which such plea was addressed nor its substance, the demurrer to such plea nor its substance, nor the motion for new trial or its substance appears in the briefs, so that even if the appeal were properly taken as to parties, no question would be presented by the briefs. Turner v. Hartman (1912), 49 Ind. App. 224, 97 N. E. 19; Hubbard v. Burnet-Lewis Lumber Co. (1912), 51 Ind. App. 97, 98 N. E. 1011; Modern Woodmen v. Jones (1913), 52 Ind. App. 149, 98 N. E. 1006; Taylor v. Schradsky (1912), 178 Ind. 217, 97 N. E. 790; Rule 22, Supreme and Appellate Courts. There are other fatal infirmities in the briefs and the record, which we deem it unnecessary to mention. Appeal dismissed.
Note. — Reported, in 107 N. E. 741. As to authority of courts to enact rules, see 41 Am. St. 639. See, also, under (1) 2 Cyc. 785; (2) 2 Cyc. 1014.