Case Name: Herrin et al. v. Olvey et al.
Court: Supreme Court of Indiana
Jurisdiction: Indiana
Decision Date: 1873-05
Citations: 42 Ind. 573
Docket Number: 
Parties: Herrin et al. v. Olvey et al.
Judges: 
Reporter: Indiana Reports
Volume: 42
Pages: 573–574

Head Matter:
Herrin et al. v. Olvey et al.
Supreme Court.—Record.—Striking Oiit.—Bill of Excejitiozis,—Where on appeal to the Supreme Court a pleading struck out by the lower court is not made a part of the record by bill of exceptions, it will be presumed by the appellate court that the ruling was correct.
Same.—Motion to Transfer Cause.—Where a motion to transfer a cause from the court of common pleas to the circuit court, on the ground that the title to real estate was in issue, was overruled, and on appeal there was no bill of exceptions embodying the motion or showing the ground upon which it was decided;
Held, that the-ruling on the motion could not be reviewed.
APPEAL from the Hamilton Common Pleas.

Opinion:
Worden, J.
Partition of lands. In the petition it was alleged that Nancy Herrin, who was one of the defendants, was the owner of an undivided one-fifth of two-thirds of the land. Andrew Alford, who was made a defendant, filed a paper which may be regarded as a cross complaint against Nancy, alleging that she, in conjunction with her husband, had executed to him a quitclaim deed for her interest in the land, but that a mistake had been made in the execution of the deed, the land being therein misdescribed. Nancy, by her guardian ad litem, answered the cross complaint, first, by general denial, and, second, in avoidance. The second paragraph was stricken out on motion of Alford, and Nancy, by her guardian ad litem, excepted.
This ruling is assigned for error. As the pleading thus stricken out is not made a part of the record by a bill of exceptions, we can not notice it. We must presume, therefore, that the ruling in striking it out was correct.
. After the pleadings had been filed, Nancy, by her guardian ad litem, moved the court, in writing, to transfer the cause to the circuit court, " for the reason that the only issue between the defendants Andrew Alford and Nancy Herrin involves the title to real estate."
The motion was overruled. To this ruling Nancy excepted, as the record informs us, but there is no bill of exceptions in the record embodying the motion, or showing the ground upon which it was decided. We are of the opinion that no question is properly before us involving the correctness of the ruling on the motion. These are all the questions presented by the assignment of errors and the brief of counsel for the appellants.
W. O'Brien and R. Graham, for appellants.
D. Moss and F. M. Trissal, for appellees.
The judgment below is affirmed, at the costs of Herrin and wife, who alone have assigned error.