La Junta & Lamar Canal Co. v. Hess
La Junta & Lamar Canal Co. v. Hess
Opinion of the Court
delivered the opinion of the court.
As these cases were originally docketed in this court, there appear to be two, which were subsequently consolidated, but the proceedings which plaintiffs in error seek to have reviewed on' error seem to have been had in the lower court on the petition of the Great Plains Water Storage Company, filed in the cause in that court which appears here as Ho. 3768. Since such consolidation, the Fort Lyon Canal Company filed its petition to be substituted as plaintiff in error, and asked that upon such substitution the actions be dismissed. This application was not resisted by the original plaintiffs in error, and was granted. They now move to have these orders vacated, ,and the causes reinstated, basing their right to this relief upon several grounds, but the only one necessary to consider is, that they had no notice of the application upon which these orders were made.
. Under rule 23, the opposite party, after appearance, is entitled to notice'of all motions not of course. The only norUe which appears to have been given plaintiffs in error of the application for substitution and dismissal, was service on their counsel of a copy of the petition of the Fort Lyon Company upon which these orders were obtained, although there is a controversy regarding that service, but it does not become necessary to determine this question. The rule mentioned, as well as the code, requires written notice of the time when a motion will be made, for an order of the character embraced in this petition. The service of a copy of the pleading itself upon which an order is sought, and for which a notice of motion for such order must be given, is not the notice contemplated by either the rule of this court, or the code, on that
The motion of the plaintiffs in error Is sustained, and the orders substituting the Fort Lyon Canal Company as plaintiff in error, and dismissing these proceedings, is set aside, and vacated, and the causes reinstated.
Motion sustained.
Reference
- Full Case Name
- The La Junta and Lamar Canal Co. v. Hess The La Junta and Laman Canal Co. v. The Great Plains Water Storage Co.
- Status
- Published