Case Name: Martindale v. Brown and Others
Court: Supreme Court of Indiana
Jurisdiction: Indiana
Decision Date: 1862-05
Citations: 18 Ind. 284
Docket Number: 
Parties: Martindale v. Brown and Others.
Judges: 
Reporter: Indiana Reports
Volume: 18
Pages: 284–285

Head Matter:
Martindale v. Brown and Others.
In an application to he relieved against a judgment, the judgment plaintiff is entitled to notice of the application.
An appeal to this Court from a mere interlocutory order is premature and should only he taken from a final judgment.
APPEAL from the Benton Common Pleas.

Opinion:
Hanna, J.
Suit on note; judgment by default. Uear a year afterwards the appellant moved the Court, on affidavit filed, to be relieved from said judgment. The Court ordered the same to be set aside, and extended the time for defendant until the next term. At that term the plaintiffs appeared and moved the Court, in writing, to set aside said order for several causes; among them, that they were not notified of the motion at the previous term. The motion was sustained, the order set aside, and the judgment "reinstated," and a judgment against appellant for the costs at that and the previous term. This ruling was excepted to, and the case brought here to reverse it.
Brown § Parke, for the appellant.
Unless the rendition of the judgment for costs can be considered as a final decision of the original motion for relief, that motion is still pending, so far as this record shows. If that is so then, perhaps the order of the Court directing the former order, as to the default, &c., to be set aside, should be viewed as a mere interlocutory order from which no appeal lies. Under this view, the original motion should, at the proper time, have been pressed to a decision, and the exceptions taken to the rulings on that. As it is, there is nothing properly before us, and we could no more than intimate an opinion upon the points attempted to be presented, to the effect that, perhaps, the party was entitled to notice of the motion to set aside the default. We decide nothing as to whether the relief sought could, in that form, be granted after the expiration of a year from the date of the judgment.
Per Curiam.
The appeal is dismissed, with costs^