Case Name: FAULKNER v. HUTCHINS
Court: United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
Jurisdiction: United States
Decision Date: 1903-11-03
Citations: 126 F. 362
Docket Number: No. 1,849
Parties: FAULKNER v. HUTCHINS.
Judges: 
Reporter: Federal Reporter
Volume: 126
Pages: 362–363

Head Matter:
FAULKNER v. HUTCHINS.
(Circuit Court of Appeals, Eighth Circuit.
November 3, 1903.)
No. 1,849.
1. Appeal by One of Joint Defendants — Necessity of Notice to Codefendants.
A separate appeal by a single party from a joint decree against him and others cannot be maintained without notice to the other defendants.
H1. See Appeal and Error, vol. 2, Cent. Dig. § 2139.
Appeal from the United States Court of Appeals in the Indian Territory.
Robert H. West, C. L. Herbert, E. A. Walker, and H. M. Cannon, for appellant.
W. A. Ledbetter and S. T. Bledsoe, for appellee.
Before SANBORN, THAYER, and VAN DEVANTER, Circuit Judges.

Opinion:
PER CURIAM.
The decree in this case was against R. B. Faulkner, Fayette Owens, Jim Bends, Minnie Owens, and John Crisp for possession of real estate, and against R. B. Faulkner, George W. Holder, M. W. Riley, M. L. Powers, J. T. Jack, and John Draughon for $560. The appeal was taken by R. B. Faulkner alone from this joint decree, and there is no evidence in the record of any summons and severance or of any notice to the other defendants to participate in the appeal. A separate appeal by a single party from a joint decree against him and others cannot be maintained without notice to the other defendants. For this reason the decree of the Court of Appeals of the Indian Territory, which dismissed the appeal, was right, and it is affirmed. Masterson v. Herndon, 10 Wall. 416, 19 L. Ed. 953; Hardee v. Wilson, 146 U. S. 179, 181, 13 Sup. Ct. 39, 36 L. Ed. 933; Davis v. Trust Co., 152 U. S. 590, 14 Sup. Ct. 693, 38 L. Ed. 563; Gray v. Havemeyer, 3 C. C. A. 497, 505, 53 Fed. 174, 178; Farmers' Loan & Trust Co. v. McClure, 78 Fed. 211, 212, 24 C. C. A. 66, 67; Dodson v. Fletcher, 78 Fed. 214, 215, 24 C. C. A. 69, 70.