Case ID: ky-op_1/html/0164-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "Judge Bullitt :", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

McCullock v. Gallagher.
    Attachment — Claimant to he Made a Party.
    Under the Civil Code any one claiming property attached may, by petition, have himself made a party to the suit, and have his rights adjudicated.
    Same — Dismissal of Suit.
    When a ease has been dismissed the plaintiff and defendant are out of court, and a petition to be made a party cannot he filed.
    APPEAL EROM JEEEERSON CIRCUIT COURT.
    June 25, 1866.
   Opinion oe the Court by

Judge Bullitt :

After the order dismissing the original case between appellant as plaintiff and Gates as defendant, Gallagher by petition had himself made a party and claimed the horse attached, and the court adjudged it to him without any notice or rule being served on either of the original parties.

Under our Civil. Code any one claiming property attached may by petition have himself made a party to the suit and have his rights adjudicated.

But when the cause has been dismissed both the plaintiff and defendant are out of court, there is then no. cause pending, and a party would have just as much right to file an original petition and have judgment thereon without service of process, either actual or constructive.

The whole proceeding on Gallagher’s petition was erroneous; the Code does not allow a claimant to thus make himself a party when there is no cause pending in the court.

Wherefore, the judgment is reversed.