Ryder v. Shea

• Decision Date: 11 December 1913
• Docket Number: 22,460
• Parties: Ryder et al. v. Shea et al
• Court: Indiana Supreme Court

103 N.E. 411

180 Ind. 574

Ryder et al. v. Shea et al

No. 22,460

Supreme Court of Indiana

December 11, 1913

From Vigo Circuit Court; Charles M. Fortune, Judge.

Appeal from an interlocutory order appointing a receiver without notice, and motion by appellees to dismiss the appeal. (For decision on the merits see Ind. .)

Motion overruled.

McNutt, Wallace & Sanders and Walker & Blankenbaker, for appellants.

J. R. Roach and E. F. Williams, for appellees.

OPINION

Morris, C. J.

The appeal here is from an interlocutory order, appointing a receiver without notice, jurisdiction of which is vested in this court. Subd. 17, § 1392 Burns 1908, Acts 1907 p. 237. The record shows that on September 2, 1913, the trial court, on motion of appellees, without notice to appellants, appointed a receiver. The next morning appellant Ryder appeared and prayed an appeal to this court, and perfected his appeal as required by § 1289 Burns 1908, § 1231 R. S. 1881. Before taking the appeal, no exception was reserved to the action of the trial court. On October 11, 1913, appellees filed a motion here, to dismiss the appeal, grounded solely on the proposition that there was no exception reserved in the court below. Appellees have filed a brief, in support of the motion, that evinces great industry and painstaking care in its preparation, and appellants' brief, resisting the motion, is no less worthy of commendation. However, no question is presented for our consideration, for such a motion may not involve a question concerning the merits of the controversy. Elliott, App. Proc. § 522; 3 Cyc. 197; Nevills v. Shortridge (1900), 129 Cal. 575, 62 P. 120; Hooper v. Beecher (1888), 109 N.Y. 609, 15 N.E. 742.

The question here presented involves nothing but the merits of the controversy. There is no dispute about this court's jurisdiction of the subject-matter, or of the persons of the appellees. No question arises with reference to the perfection of the appeal, or in regard to any matter that might furnish a ground for a motion to dismiss. Elliott, App. Proc. §§ 541-549.

If appellees' contention shall prevail, the judgment of the trial court must be affirmed; otherwise it must be reversed. The motion to dismiss is overruled at appellees' cost.