Court Opinion

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FOR PUBLICATION

ATTORNEYS FOR APPELLANT HOLIDAY         ATTORNEYS FOR APPELLEE:
HOSPITALITY FRANCHISING, INC:
                                        DANFORD R. DUE
ROBERT B. CLEMENS                       SCOTT E. ANDRES
CURTIS T. JONES                         Due Doyle Fanning, LLP
Bose McKinney & Evans LLP               Indianapolis, Indiana
Indianapolis, Indiana

ATTORNEY FOR INTERESTED PARTIES
HOLIDAY INN EXPRESS OF NEW CASTLE,

                                                     FILED
LLC and ANIL MEGHA:

FREEDOM VILLA MILLER                              Jan 18 2012, 9:45 am
Smith Fisher Maas & Howard, P.C.
Indianapolis, Indiana                                     CLERK
                                                        of the supreme court,
                                                        court of appeals and
                                                               tax court

ATTORNEY FOR INTERESTED PARTY
S.H. INDIVIDUALLY AND AS PARENT AND
NEXT FRIEND OF R.M.H., A MINOR CHILD:

MARK D. GERTH
Kightlinger & Gray, LLP
Indianapolis, Indiana

                             IN THE
                   COURT OF APPEALS OF INDIANA

HOLIDAY HOSPITALITY                     )
FRANCHISING, INC.,                      )
                                        )
      Appellant-Defendant,              )
                                        )
             vs.                        )   No. 33A01-1103-CT-104
                                        )
AMCO INSURANCE COMPANY,                 )
                                        )
      Appellee-Plaintiff.               )
                                        )
                                        )
                                        )
HOLIDAY INN EXPRESS OF NEW                          )
CASTLE, LLC, ANIL MEGHA. S.H.,                      )
INDIVIDUALLY AND AS PARENT            )
AND NEXT FRIEND OF R.M.H., a minor )
child, and MICHAEL V. FORSHEY,        )
                                      )
       Interested Parties-Defendants. )

                      APPEAL FROM THE HENRY CIRCUIT COURT
                          The Honorable Mary G. Willis, Judge
                              Cause No. 33C01-0901-CT-3

                                       January 18, 2012

                    OPINION ON REHEARING - FOR PUBLICATION

ROBB, Chief Judge

       Holiday Hospitality Franchising, Inc. (“Holiday Hospitality”), Holiday Inn Express of

New Castle (“Holiday Inn”), Anil Megha, and S.H., individually and as parent and next

friend of R.M.H., (collectively, the “Petitioners”) have petitioned for rehearing of this court’s

decision in Holiday Hospitality Franchising, Inc. v. Amco Ins. Co., 955 N.E.2d 827 (Ind. Ct.

App. 2011), in which we reversed the trial court’s grant of Amco Insurance Company’s

(“AMCO”) motion for summary judgment as against Holiday Hospitality. We grant the

petition for rehearing to clarify the disposition of our opinion.

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       In our opinion we noted that the reversal of summary judgment only applied as against

Holiday Hospitality, not the other defendants in the trial court action, because Holiday

Hospitality is the only party that appealed. Id. at 831 n.2. The Petitioners argue our reversal

of summary judgment should apply to Holiday Inn and Megha as well, relying on Appellate

Rule 17(A), which provides “[a] party of record in the trial court . . . shall be a party on

appeal.” They argue McKinney v. Public Service Co. of Indiana, Inc., 597 N.E.2d 1001

(Ind. Ct. App. 1992), trans. denied, “squarely addressed” in their favor the issue they raise in

their petition. We agree with the Petitioners that, contrary to the footnote in our opinion, all

parties to the trial court proceeding below are parties on appeal. However, this does not

necessitate that the procedural disposition of our opinion, the reversal of summary judgment

as to Holiday Hospitality, apply to any party other than Holiday Hospitality. Appellate Rule

9(A) mandates that a party file a notice of appeal within thirty days after final judgment and

provides that the right to appeal is forfeited unless the notice of appeal is timely filed. Here,

the trial court’s grant of summary judgment for AMCO against all parties and on all issues

constituted final judgment. Thus, while all parties below may be parties to the appeal, the

reversal of summary judgment only applies to Holiday Hospitality. The other Petitioners

forfeited the right to appeal the trial court’s grant of summary judgment against them.

       Accordingly, we reverse the trial court’s grant of summary judgment as to Holiday

Hospitality alone and remand for further proceedings.

       BARNES, J., and BRADFORD, J., concur.

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