diff --git a/src/testinputs/com/puppycrawl/tools/checkstyle/javadoc/BadCls.java b/src/testinputs/com/puppycrawl/tools/checkstyle/javadoc/BadCls.java
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..7c8464ff3
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/testinputs/com/puppycrawl/tools/checkstyle/javadoc/BadCls.java
@@ -0,0 +1,4 @@
+class BadCls {
+  class X extends Exception {}
+  void m() throws X {}
+}