Stillabower v. Foster

2 Citing cases

  1. State ex rel. Moak v. Moore

    373 So. 2d 1011 (Miss. 1979)   Cited 10 times

    State ex rel. St. Louis Public Service Co. v. McMullan (Mo.) 297 S.W.2d 431, 62 A.L.R.2d 1281 (Mo. 1957). Other cases holding that a motion to dismiss should not be sustained upon facts such as those before us are the following: Dunn v. Law Offices of Ramon R. Alvarez, 119 Ariz. 437, 581 P.2d 282 (App. 1978); Stillabower v. Foster, 222 N.E.2d 292 (Ind. App. 1966); Clay v. Smith, 208 Ga. 423, 67 S.E.2d 235 (1951); Lefkoff v. Sicro, 189 Ga. 554, 6 S.E.2d 687 (1939); Walker Fertilizer Co. v. Race, 123 Fla. 84, 166 So. 283 (1936); and Halstead v. Olsen, 5 Neb. 112, 97 N.W. 442 (1903). Significant is the fact that the lower court finalized the proceedings as much as could be done as to the parties legally and properly before it.

  2. Pilotte v. Brummett

    165 Ind. App. 403 (Ind. Ct. App. 1975)   Cited 3 times
    Referring to predecessor statute to Indiana Code section 32-30-2-1 as "the ejectment statute"

    " (Our emphasis.) Equity looks to substance rather than form: State ex rel. McGonigle v. Madison Circuit Ct. (1963), 244 Ind. 403, 419, 193 N.E.2d 242; State v. Ahaus (1945), 223 Ind. 629, 63 N.E.2d 199, 204; Wabash Valley Coach Co. v. Turner (1943), 221 Ind. 52, 65-66, 46 N.E.2d 212; Stillabower v. Foster (1966), 140 Ind. App. 32, 37, 222 N.E.2d 292; Leeka v. Muncie Savings Loan Co. (1919), 71 Ind. App. 318, 325, 124 N.E. 762. To reverse this case for retrial would be an empty and futile gesture.