Tuke v. Manchester
Tuke v. Manchester
Dissenting Opinion
dissenting. In my opinion the state of the pleadings was not such as to justify a
Opinion of the Court
The plaintiff below, Mary A. Manchester, brought an action against the defendants, Fred Tuke and others, to recover $400 which she had theretofore paid to them in pursuance of a'real estate transaction. The defendants filed an answer and later an amended and supplemental answer. A motion for judgment on the pleadings was thereupon filed by the plaintiff, which motion was granted. The defendants then made a motion to permit the withdrawal of their amended and supplemental answer and for leave to file an affidavit of interpleader. This motion was overruled, and the defendants prosecute error to this court.
We find no error in the action of the "common pleas court in refusing leave to file the affidavit of interpleader after the defendant had filed an answer and an amended and supplemental answer. The provisions of Section 11265, General Code, contemplate the filing of such affidavit before the issues are made by the filing of an answer. The court may have had the right to permit the withdrawal of the answers and the filing of the affidavit of interpleader, but this was a matter entirely within the judicial discretion of the court and we find that its action constituted no abuse of such discretion.
The more difficult question arises in determining whether the judgment entered upon the pleadings was properly entered. A majority of the court are of opinion that there was no error in granting the motion for judgment on the pleadings. The pleadings, as viewed by a majority of the court, show, in substance, that the plaintiff authorized her agent,
Finding no error in the record sufficiently prejudicial to justify a reversal of the judgment, a majority of the court are of the opinion that the judgment should be and the saíne hereby is affirmed.
Judgment affirmed.
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