Smeekens v. Bertrand

Appellants were plaintiffs and appellees were defendants in the trial court in litigation involving the right to possession of real and personal property constituting the Panorama Motel near Angola in Steuben County. The Honorable F. Kenneth Dempsey, sitting as Special Judge in the Steuben Circuit Court, made and filed special findings of fact and conclusions of law on which he rendered judgment that plaintiffs-appellants take nothing and defendants-appellees recover costs. At the same time the trial judge filed the following explaining his decision i 1

“This is an action by the plaintiff in…