Sale of tractor with altered identification number was subject to rescission on grounds of mistake and public policy, and buyer was entitled to recovery of payments with interest.
E. Najam
Cotton v. Cotton, No. 43A03-1005-DR-325 , ___ N.E.2d___, (Ind. Ct. App., Feb. 24, 2011)
Summons served on wife was insufficient as a matter of law for the court to exercise personal jurisdiction over defendant, because it neither complied with Trial Rule 4(C)(5) or due process. Due process requires that, at a minimum, a respondent in a dissolution proceeding be notified of the risk of default for failure to appear or otherwise respond.
Hurst v. State, No. 49A02-1004-CR-378, __ N.E.2d __ (Ind. Ct. App., Dec. 16, 2010)
Showing the police his eleven year-old’s text message and photograph of purported marijuana in stepfather’s house sufficiently corroborated the reliability of father’s report to police of the daughter’s message to support a search warrant for the house.
R.R.F. v. L.L.F., No. 69A01-1001-DR-77, __ N.E.2d __ (Ind. Ct. App., Oct. 8, 2010)
When Mother would receive a $4,000 tax credit for her contributions to child’s college expenses, trial court erred under Support Guideline 8(b) in not giving Father a setoff against his share of the expenses to apportion the credit equitably.
Long v. State, No. 41A04-0912-CR-743, __ N.E.2d __ (Ind. Ct. App., Sept. 30, 2010)
Evidence raised sufficient inference that purchaser under lease-to-purchase contract never intended to pay, so that proof purchaser took furnishings when he moved out sufficed, with intent inference, to prove crime of theft.