Court Opinion

ID: 3409785
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2016-07-05 19:27:28.433182+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T13:50:27.620592
License: Public Domain

This is an action commenced by respondent to foreclose a real estate mortgage. Arthur Brothers executed and delivered to one Charlie M.L. Daley their promissory note in the sum of $6,000 and secured the same by a real estate mortgage. Daley assigned said note and mortgage to respondent, who commenced this action. Defendants all defaulted except The Stockyards National Bank, which filed a separate demurrer. The demurrer sets forth several grounds, but it is only necessary to mention two, which are as follows: "(b) That it nowhere appears from said complaint that this defendant has, or claims to have, any interest in the property described in the complaint. (c) It nowhere appears from the said complaint that this defendant is either a necessary or proper party defendant to said cause of action." An examination of the complaint discloses that the only reference to The Stockyards National Bank is an allegation as to its corporate existence. No statement is made anywhere that it has or *Page 119 
claims to have any interest in the property involved. In fact, there is nothing in the complaint to show why The Stockyards National Bank was made a party defendant. The demurrer should have been sustained, and no doubt would have been if called to the lower court's attention. The Stockyards National Bank stood on its demurrer and did not answer, whereupon a default was entered and judgment taken against all the defendants.
The Stockyards National Bank has appealed from the judgment so entered to this court. The complaint failing to state a cause of action against the said The Stockyards National Bank, we recommend that the judgment be affirmed except as against it, and, in so fat as it affects said bank, be reversed and remanded. Costs to appellant.
Brinck and Varian, CC., concur.
The foregoing is approved as the opinion of the court, and the judgment is affirmed except as against The Stockyards National Bank, and, in so far as it affects said bank, is reversed and remanded.
Costs to appellant.
Wm. E. Lee, C.J., and Givens and Taylor, JJ., concur. *Page 120