Kreutz v. Dublin Sash & Door Co.
Kreutz v. Dublin Sash & Door Co.
Opinion of the Court
The Dublin Sash and Door Company instituted this action against Felder G. Kreutz as administrator cum testamento annexo, and M. R. Scarborough, contractor, to foreclose a materialman’s lien on certain property of the estate represented by Kreutz, alleging that Kreutz was authorized to improve this property; that he made a contract with Scarborough to repair and rebuild the house which had been damaged by fire; that the plaintiff furnished to Scarborough material in the amount of $269.65, which was due and payable on May 1, 1932; and that on May 14, 1932, the plaintiff recorded and filed its lien for said amount against said property. To this petition the plaintiff offered an amendment setting up that the real owners of said property were Felder G. Kreutz, Fitzhugh Lee Kreutz, and W. H. Keith, a minor; that Felder G. Kreutz and Fitzhugh Lee Kreutz each owned a third undivided interest for life, and that Keith owned a third undivided interest therein in fee simple. In the amendment it was alleged: “Felder G.. Kreutz was in charge of this property, representing himself and the owners of the other interests, and employed M. R. Scarborough as a contractor to furnish material and repair the building. The said owners employed the said contractor to furnish material and repair the building, and in pursuance of this contract between the owners and the contractors the said contractor purchased material from plaintiff in the sum of $269.65.” The plaintiff prayed that the original petition be amended “so as to proceed against Felder G. Kreutz in his individual capacity; and' that Fitzhugh Lee Kreutz and W. H. Keith, be made parties defendant to this action; and that a rule issue to them, appointing [requiring] them to show cause why they should not be made parties.” The court, on October 17, 1933, issued a rule against the defendants, requiring them to show cause, on October 23, 1933, why they should not be made parties to the action. Under date of March 31, 1934, the following order appears in the record: “Upon hearing the rule it is ordered that the parties named be and they are hereby made parties defendant. Let service be made.
F. L. Kreutz and W. H. Keith Jr. filed exceptions pendente lite to the overruling of their objections to being made parties, and the exceptions were certified by the judge on October 25, 1934. They filed also exceptions pendente lite to the overruling of their demurrer which were certified on the same date. Felder G. Kreutz filed exceptions pendente lite to the overruling of his demurrer, which were certified on October 30, 1934. It appearing that the order making Felder G. Kreutz a party to the action individually, and making Fitzhugh Lee Kreutz and W. II. Keith parties thereto, was passed, after a hearing on the rule, on March 31, 1934, in order properly to raise, on appeal, the question whether or not it was proper to make them parties and whether the petition was amendable, timely exceptions pendente lite should have been taken to that order; and exceptions pendente lite taken to the overruling of objections already foreclosed by the order of March 31, 1934, can not be considered by this court, as the exceptions were not taken within the proper time. Code of 1933, § 6-905.
The petition set out a cause of action. Code of 1933, § 67-2001, et seq.
The will was introduced in evidence, and it recited as follows : “And I expressly confer upon her [my executrix] the
Judgment affirmed.
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