Title: Henderson v. Henderson
Citation: 381 N.E.2d 451
Docket Number: 778S144
State: Indiana
Issuer: Indiana Supreme Court
Date: October 11, 1978

381 N.E.2d 451 (1978)
Robert T. HENDERSON, Appellant,
v.
Frances Irene HENDERSON, Appellee.
No. 778S144.

Supreme Court of Indiana.
October 11, 1978.
David S. McCrea, McCrea &amp; McCrea, Bloomington, for appellant.
Lewellyn H. Pratt, Applegate &amp; Pratt, Bloomington, for appellee.
GIVAN, Chief Justice.
This cause comes to us on a stipulated joint petition to transfer by both parties. The trial court orally entered a divorce decree and requested appellee's attorney to draft the decree in accordance with his decision. The decree was drafted and was signed as "approved" by the attorneys for both parties. Appellant then timely perfected an appeal contesting the propriety of a portion of the decree. The Court of Appeals affirmed the trial court on the ground that the appellant had waived any error in the judgment when his attorney signed and approved the decree. The Court of Appeals did not review the merits of the appeal. The parties in their petition to transfer have stipulated that the signature of appellant's attorney was an approval only as to the form and not the substance of the decree.
In the case of State v. Trotter, (1938) 214 Ind. 68, 14 N.E.2d 550, this Court stated:
214 Ind. at 73, 14 N.E.2d  at 552.
This rule of law was recently cited and reaffirmed by this Court in State v. Maplewood Heights Corp., (1973) 261 Ind. 305, 302 N.E.2d 782 and State v. Heslar, (1972) 257 Ind. 625, 277 N.E.2d 796.
In the case at bar it is apparent that the signature of the appellant's attorney was intended to operate as an approval of the form but not the content of this divorce decree. Thus, the appellant has waived no error.
Accordingly, we grant transfer, vacate the opinion of the Court of Appeals and *452 remand this cause to that court for a decision on the merits of this appeal.
DeBRULER, HUNTER, PIVARNIK and PRENTICE, JJ., concur.