Sheraton Corp. of America v. Korte Paper Co.

This appeal presents the question of whether a party (Korte) who loses at trial and permits the judgment against it to become final can utilize the provisions of Indiana Rules of Procedure, Trial Rule 60 to be relieved from judgment solely because a subsequent decision of an appellate court in an unrelated case declared the law to be contrary to that applied by the trial court in the party’s case. We hold that in the absence of additional pertinent circumstances, it may not.

The facts disclose that Korte brought suit against Sheraton on an account for goods and merchandise-furnished to the…