Title Company was Title Insurance Company’s agent for title insurance purposes, but not for closing and escrow purposes.
Appeals
City of Greenwood v. Town of Bargersville, No. 41A05-0912-CV-684, ___ N.E.2d ___ (Ind. Ct. App., July 15, 2010)
(1) City had standing to bring declaratory judgment action regarding the validity of Town’s annexation of territory within three miles of City; (2) landowners’ agreements that waived their “rights to object, remonstrate or appeal against [the] annexation,” did not constitute consent to the annexation.
Jones v. State, No. 27A02-1002-CR-168, __ N.E.2d __ (Ind. Ct. App., July 7, 2010)
When the two convictions were based on controlled buys using the same informant and quantity of drugs and were arranged to occur at the same place and took place only two weeks apart, consecutive sentences were inappropriate.
Reinhart v. State, No. 57A03-1002-CR-84, __N.E.2d __ (Ind. Ct. App., July 9, 2010)
When motorist calmly complied with officer’s commands, although motorist had yelled at officer earlier, officer’s pointing firearm at and handcuffing of motorist transformed a permissible investigative stop into an illegal arrest without probable cause.
Halferty v. State, No. 20A03-0910-CR-475, __ N.E.2d __ (Ind. Ct. App., July 9, 2010)
Testimony that cooking ephedrine/pseudoephedrine would “usually” and “generally” reduce it to methamphetamine at a 70 percent ratio but that ratio could have been as low as 50 percent was insufficient to prove defendant was manufacturing more than three grams of methamphetamine so as to support an A felony conviction.