Case ID: f_93/html/0533-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "McPHERSON, District Judge.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

RHOADES v. PENNSYLVANIA CO. FOR INSURANCES ON LIVES & GRANTING ANNUITIES et al.
    (Circuit Court, E. D. Pennsylvania.
    April 7, 1899.)
    Parties — Right op Intervention.
    .V creditor is not entitled to intervene as a co-plaintiff in a suit against his debtor brought by another creditor in his own interest alone, for the purpose of continuing the suit after the plaintiff’s claim has been adjusted, but will be remanded to a new action in his own right.
    On Petition of Alice Barrett for Leave to Intervene as Co-Plaintiff.
    J. W. M. Xewlin, for petitioner.
    Samuel Dickson and Thomas Hart, Jr., for respondents.
   McPHERSON, District Judge.

We see no reason for granting the prayer of this petitioner. The suit in which she desires to intervene as plaintiff was an action brought by Rhoades to advance his own interests, and was not intended, for the benefit of any other creditor. Ilia claim has been adjusted, and he has assigned the judgment upon which the bill is based to another person, who may or may not intend to proceed with the cause. But, even if the assignee is content to do nothing further, this fact gives the petitioner no right to intrude upon the suit, and to go on with it as if it had been originally brought as well for her benefit as for the benefit of Rhoades himself. If she is entitled to raise the questions referred to on the argument of this motion, she can raise them in a suitable proceeding under her own control. The petition is refused.