From Casetext: Smarter Legal Research

Lake Motor Freight Line v. N.Y.C.R. Co.

Supreme Court of Indiana
May 12, 1950
92 N.E.2d 221 (Ind. 1950)

Opinion

No. 28,676.

Filed May 12, 1950. Rehearing denied June 5, 1950.

APPEAL — Briefs — Form and Requisites — Failure To Include Pleadings or Objections to Instructions — Questions Not Presented. — Where errors relied upon on appeal involve the refusal of certain tendered instructions, the giving of others, the rejection of certain evidence, and the striking out of portions of appellant's complaint, but appellant's brief does not contain the complaint, the appellee's motion to strike parts thereof, the appellee's answer and counter-claim, nor the objections to the instructions which were given, the questions are not presented for review to the Supreme Court which will not search the record in order to reverse. Rules of the Supreme Court, 2-17.

From the Elkhart Superior Court, William E. Wider, Judge.

Action by the Lake Motor Freight Line, Inc., against the New York Central Railroad Company for damages arising out of a collision between plaintiff's trailer and defendant's train. From a judgment for defendant, plaintiff appeals. (Transferred from the Appellate Court pursuant to § 4-215, Burns' 1946 Replacement.)

Affirmed.

Gilkison, J., not participating.

(Superseding the opinion of the Appellate Court reported 90 N.E.2d 512.)

Raymer Raymer, of Elkhart, for appellant.

Church Chester, of Elkhart, for appellee.


This Court ordered transfer of this appeal because of certain incorrect statements of law contained in the opinion rendered herein by the Appellate Court.

Upon examination of appellant's brief we find that the errors relied upon for reversal involve the refusal of certain tendered instructions, the giving of others, the rejection of certain evidence, and the striking out of portions of appellant's complaint. We also find that the appellant's brief does not contain the complaint, the appellee's motion to strike parts of the complaint, the appellee's answer and counter-claim, nor the objections to the instructions which were given. In order to fully present each of these claimed errors the above portions of the record or parts of same so omitted necessarily should have been concisely set out in appellant's brief. See Rule 2-17, subdivision (e), 1946 Revision, which was in force when this appeal was taken. See also Rule 2-17, 1949 Revision. This court will not search the record in order to reverse.

No questions having been presented the judgment is affirmed.

Gilkison, J., not participating.

NOTE. — Reported in 92 N.E.2d 221.


Summaries of

Lake Motor Freight Line v. N.Y.C.R. Co.

Supreme Court of Indiana
May 12, 1950
92 N.E.2d 221 (Ind. 1950)
Case details for

Lake Motor Freight Line v. N.Y.C.R. Co.

Case Details

Full title:LAKE MOTOR FREIGHT LINE, INC. v. NEW YORK CENTRAL RAILROAD COMPANY

Court:Supreme Court of Indiana

Date published: May 12, 1950

Citations

92 N.E.2d 221 (Ind. 1950)
92 N.E.2d 221

Citing Cases

Witte v. Witte

This court will not search the record in order to reverse. Lake Motor Freight Line v. N.Y.C.R. Co. (1950),…

Public Service Comm. v. Ind. Bell Tel. Co.

In the later cases in the Appellate Court and in this court the filing of a fatally defective appellant's…