Dye v. Schick
| Decision Date | 17 December 1920 |
| Docket Number | 10,712 |
| Parties | DYE v. SCHICK ET AL |
| Court | Indiana Appellate Court |
From Boone Circuit Court; Willett H. Parr, Judge.
Condemnation proceedings by a railroad company and payment of award into court. Adverse petitions by William F. Schick and Malora Dye as to distribution of the award. From the judgment rendered the latter appeals.
Affirmed.
Ira M Sharp and Roscoe Hollingsworth, for appellant.
Frank S. Roby, for appellees.
Appellee Schick, on July 15, 1916, purchased a tract of land from appellant, and a written contract was entered into, acknowledged and recorded, by the terms of which said appellee became the owner of the land, appellant holding the legal title as security for the payment of the purchase money. Appellee paid $ 300 cash, and agreed to pay $ 25 per month with interest after maturity, until the full purchase price of $ 4,200 was paid, with privilege of paying more than $ 25 per month and to pay the full amount at any time. Appellee took possession of the land, and in all respects performed the contract. Appellee railroad company filed its complaint in the Boone Circuit Court, September 20, 1916, to condemn a strip of said tract 200 feet wide diagonally across said land. To this complaint appellant and appellee answered, appellant praying in her answer that she be adjudged the owner of all damages assessed in this proceeding in a sum up to the amount due her from appellee Schick, under her contract of sale. There was judgment condemning said tract, with an award of damages in the sum of $ 2,650 which sum was paid to the clerk of the court. All parties excepted and such exceptions are yet pending. The railroad company entered into the possession of said tract so condemned. The controversy in this proceeding is wholly between appellant and appellee Schick, hereinafter mentioned as appellee, and has to do only with the disposition of the award.
On April 30, 1919, appellee filed his verified petition asking the court to apportion said award of $ 2,650, praying that the amounts due without interest on the contract of sale be discounted for such time as the same has to run at the rate contemplated by the contract and fixed by law, to wit, six per cent., or in default of discount that the whole sum be paid to appellee. On May 3, 1919, appellant filed her petition asking the court to hold said sum so awarded in trust, and not to pay the same or any part thereof to appellee. The court sustained appellee's petition and denied appellant's, and awarded all of said sum of $ 2,650 to appellee, but determined the cash value of appellant's contract to be $ 2,118, and directed that said amount be paid to appellant in full discharge of said contract, and in full payment of the purchase money for said real estate. This decision is challenged by appellant's motion for a new trial for the reason that the decision of the court is not sustained by sufficient evidence, and that it is contrary to law. The motion was overruled, and the court's action in overruling the motion is the only error assigned that we need to consider. The only evidence consisted of the respective petitions of appellant and appellee.
Appellant contends that, as none of the exceptions to the award...
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