Case Name: Cline v. Murrell and Another
Court: Supreme Court of Indiana
Jurisdiction: Indiana
Decision Date: 1857-11-30
Citations: 9 Ind. 516
Docket Number: 
Parties: Cline v. Murrell and Another.
Judges: 
Reporter: Indiana Reports
Volume: 9
Pages: 516–516

Head Matter:
Cline v. Murrell and Another.
In a suit upon several transcripts of judgments, the defendant answered that the notes upon which the judgments were recovered were obtained by fraud, and that he was induced to confess the judgments by fraudulent representar tions — setting out the particulars. Demurrer sustained. Held, that this was error.
Monday, November 30.
APPEAL from the Hendricks Court of Common Pleas.
C. C. Nave, for the appellant.
J. M. Gregg, for the appellees.

Opinion:
Stuart J.
Mwrrell and another sued Cline on three transcripts of judgments rendered before a magistrate, on several promissory notes, in October, 1852. This suit was brought in November, 1855, three years after.
Cline set up that the notes were procured by fraud, and he was induced to confess the judgments by fraudulent representations, setting out the particulars. Demurrer to the answer sustained, and judgment.
Admitting the answer to be true, as the demurrer does, we think there is too much substance to be thus summarily disposed of. The demurrer should have been overruled. It does not appear that the purpose of the parties in the transaction set up in the answer, was to defraud any third person. If it should so turn out in evidence, of course the Courts will leave the parties as they find them.
Per Curiam.—
The judgment is reversed with costs. Cause remanded, &c.