Murray v. Bohanna
Murray v. Bohanna
Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered by
This suit was commenced originally in the district court of Sumner county by Harriet Bohanna against John A. Murray, Fannie C. Murray, C. Everest Elliott, Camilla Elliott, Mrs. W. J. Pace, Thomas A. Page, The Showaiter-Morigage Company, L. H. Everts & Co., J. D. Patterson. Frank D. Irland, administrator, Dustan Adams, Av
John A.(Murray and Fannie C. Murray, on the 28th day of January, 1890, filed their separate answers in said cause, containing a general denial, and alleging that said Harriet Bohanna was not the owner and holder of said note, and denying that she was the real party interested in said cause. The defendants C. Everest Elliott and Camilla Elliott filed their separate answers in said cause, containing a general denial, and alleging that, since the execution of the note set out in plaintiff’s petition, said defendants Elliott and Elliott had conveyed to their codefendant John A. Murray their interest in the premises covered by the mortgage given to secure the payment of said note, and that, at the time of executing the conveyance, John A. Murray agreed and assumed to pay the note and mortgage given to Harriet Gatliff. Harriet Bohanna filed replies to the separate answers of Murray and Murray and of Elliott and Elliott. The other defendants made no appearance and filed no answers in said action.
The case comes to this court on the petition in error of John A. Murray and Fannie C. Murray. None of the other parties defendant below is made a party in this court. We are met at the very threshold of this case with a motion to dismiss the petition in error for want of proper parties, and also by a motion on the part of the plaintiff in error to amend her petition by making G. Everest Elliott a party.
The judgment in this case was a joint judgment against John A. Murray and O. Everest Elliott for $1,516.90, bearing interest at the rate of 10 per cent, from the date of the rendition of said judgment, with a decree foreclosing the mortgage given to secure the j>ayment of. the sum of money for which judgment was rendered, and an order for the sale of the mortgaged property, and providing that, in case the mortgaged property should fail to satisfy the judgment, the plaintiff have execution against Murray and Elliott for the deficiency, and that execution issue against Murrav first.
In the case of Paper Co. v. Hentig, 31 Kan. 317, Valentine, J., speaking for the court, says :
“We think that under no circumstances should a party be allowed to gain an advantage by' bringing the case to the supreme court and omitting, to make some of the interested parties parties in the supreme court; and in no case should a judgment be interfered with by the supreme court where one of the parties to the judgment is not a party in the supreme court.”
The motion to amend the petition in error and make O. Everest Elliott a party defendant is overruled.
The judgment brought before this court is a joint judgment against John A. Murray and G. Everest Elliott, and Elliott has at no time taken any exceptions to the judgment or the proceedings on the trial which resulted in the judgment, and at all times since has acquiesced therein, and takes no exceptions thereto, and has not been made a party or brought into this bourt. The judgment being joint against Murray and Elliott for the recovery of the amount of the note and interest sued upon, and so connected with the decree of foreclosure that a reversal of the same would affect all the parties thereto, the reversal of the judgment as to Murray would leave the judgment in full force as against Elliott. This court cannot reverse or modify a judgment unless all the
The petition in error will therefore be dismissed.
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