Case ID: ohio-cir-dec_10/html/0815-01.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

JUDGMENTS — JOINT CLAIMS.
    [Hamilton Circuit Court,
    1899.]
    Smith, Swing, and Giffen, JJ.
    Samuel Schuch et al. v. John Groh.
    1. Judgment Against Joint Defendants Wiieee Only One is Served.
    Judgment against two persons, on a joint claim, where only one was before the court, is erroneous as to the one served and void as to the one not served.
    2. Practice — Petition in Error by Such Joint Defendants.
    On a petition in error by both defendants, the judgment as to both must be set aside.
    Error to the Court of Common Pleas of Hamilton county.
    Galvin & Bauer and Joseph B. Kelley, for plaintiffs in error.
    J. T. De Mar, contra.
    
   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 be set aside.