Case ID: ohio-cc_20/html/0709-02.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "SMITH, J.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

(First Circuit—Hamilton Co., O., Circ‘t Court
    Jan. Term, 1899.)
    Before Smith, Swing and Giffen, JJ.
    SCHUCH et al. v. GROH.
    
      Judgment against two parties on joint claim, when one only before court, erroneous—
    Error to the Court of Common Pleas of Hamilton county.
    
      Oilvin & Bluer and Joseph B. Kelley, for Plaintiffs in Error.
    
      J. T. De Mar, centra.
   SMITH, J.

A judgment rendered against two persons on a joint claim when only one of the persons was before the court, is erroneous as to the one served and void as to the one not served, and on a petition in error, filed by both, the judgment as to both must te set aside.