Case ID: us_109/html/0173-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "Mr. Chief Justice 'Waite,", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

GUION v. LIVERPOOL, LONDON, AND GLOBE INSURANCE CO.
    APPEAL FROM THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE UNITED STATES FOR THE DISTRICT OF .INDIANA.
    Argued October 15tH, 1883.
    Decided November 5th, 1883.
    
      Appeal.
    
    
      A person not a party in a suit cannot take an appeal in it.
    On the 2d July, 1879, "William H, Guión, claiming to have an interest in the bonds of the appellee which were the subject of controversy in the suit of The Indiana Southern Railroad Company v. The Liverpool, London, & Globe Insurance Company, just reported, filed his petition in that suit in the court below, asking to be admitted as a party to the suit for his own protection. This petition was denied. Guión was allowed an appeal on giving" bond and security for cost, but the transcript does not show that he ever gave the bond.
    The case was argued simultaneously with the case of The Indiana Southern Railroad Company, and by the same' counsel.
   Mr. Chief Justice 'Waite,

in delivering the opinion of the court in that case, said:

The petition of Guión was for leave to appeal from a decree in a suit to which hé was not a party. ' We decided in Ex parte Cutting, 94 U. S. 14, that such an appeal could not be taken. He had applied for leave to become a party, but this leave ivas not given. So .he is not a party to the decree from which he appeals. But if he is, he has never perfected an appeal by giving the Inecessary security.

Appeal dismissed for want of jurisdiction.