Catherwood v. Morgan

Decision Date14 February 1934
Docket NumberNo. 15114.,15114.
PartiesCATHERWOOD et al. v. MORGAN et al.
CourtIndiana Appellate Court

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Appeal from Benton Circuit Court; Ralph C. McClurg, Judge.

Action by Wilbur F. Morgan, as administrator of the estate of Cornelius H. Catherwood, deceased, against Robert Catherwood and others, in which certain defendants filed cross-complaints. From an adverse judgment, Robert Catherwood and Lucy Catherwood appeal.

Appeal dismissed.

Otto Gresham, of Chicago, Ill., for appellants.

Fraser & Isham, of Fowler, and Dyer & Dyer, of Worthington, for appellees.

WOOD, Chief Judge.

From an examination of our records, we find that upon July 6, 1927, the transcript and assignment of errors in cause No. 13082, entitled Wilbur F. Morgan, Adm'r v. Robert Catherwood et al., being an appeal from a judgment of the Benton circuit court, was filed in this court. The only question for consideration presented by the appellant in that appeal, who is one of the appellees in this appeal, was based upon the present appellees' exceptions to the lower court's conclusions of law rendered upon a special finding of facts. There was no question raised upon the pleadings by demurrer or otherwise. There was no motion for a new trial, and the evidence was not in the record. After the filing of said cause No. 13082 in this court, the following, among other proceedings, were had therein: August 29, 1929, the cause was reversed with instructions to restate the conclusions of law in harmony with the opinion of this court, and to render judgment accordingly. Morgan, Adm'r, v. Catherwood (1929) 95 Ind. App. 266, 167 N. E. 618; October 25, 1929, the appellees (appellants here) filed a motion to modify the judgment and mandate of this court. On the same day they filed a petition for rehearing. January 17, 1930, the motion to modify the judgment and mandate of this court was overruled and the petition for rehearing denied; February 13, 1930, appellees (appellants here) filed a petition for a transfer of cause No. 13082 to the Supreme Court; December 8, 1932, this petition was denied, and the clerk of the court in due time certified the cause to the Benton circuit court for further proceedings in compliance with the judgment and mandate of this court, pronounced August 29, 1929.

June 23, 1933, the Benton circuit court restated its conclusions of law, and rendered judgment thereon in harmony with the judgment and mandate of this court in said cause No. 13082.

[1] From this judgment the appellants in this case, who were appellees in cause No. 13082, appeal to this court, assigning thirty-two alleged errors for reversal, all of which are summarized by counsel for appellants in their brief on the merits of this cause in the following language: (1) The action of this Court in entering its judgment of the 29th day of August, 1929, reversing the judgment of the Circuit Court of Benton County of June 9, 1927, and remanding the case for a judgment in accordance with its opinion. (2) The action of the court below in setting aside the judgment or decree of the Benton Court of June 9, 1927, and in entering its judgment or decree in favor of the plaintiffs and cross-complainants.” All other alleged errors are waived.

[2] The appellees have filed a motion to dismiss this appeal, upon the theory briefly stated, that the appellants have already had their day in court in cause No. 13082, and are now endeavoring by this appeal to obtain by indirection, what would amount to a rehearing in said cause No. 13082, for the purpose of nullifying the original opinion and judgment of this court in that cause and affirming the first and original judgment of the Benton circuit court.

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