Case Name: Belle M. Ervin v. Geo. Mathers
Court: Hamilton Circuit Court
Jurisdiction: Ohio
Decision Date: 1899-07
Citations: 9 Ohio Cir. Dec. 847
Docket Number: 
Parties: Belle M. Ervin v. Geo. Mathers.
Judges: Smith, Swing and Giffin, JJ.
Reporter: Ohio Circuit Decisions
Volume: 9
Pages: 847–847

Head Matter:
ERROR — PARTIES.
[Hamilton Circuit Court,
July, 1899.]
Smith, Swing and Giffin, JJ.
Belle M. Ervin v. Geo. Mathers.
Petition in Error will be Stricken from Files for want of Parties.
A motion to strike a petition in error from the files must be granted where there were defendants in the original case, other than the defendants in error, who are substantial parties to the controversy, and whose rights were affected by the decree below.
Heard on Error.
Wilby & Wald, for the motions.
F. W. Brow7ie, contra.

Opinion:
Smith, J.
The defendants in error in this and two other cases move the court to strike the petitions in error from the files on the ground that the plaintiff in error was not prejudiced by the judgments sought to be reversed, and that no substantial right of his has been affected by the judgment. We think that probably this is the case. But there is another ground on which we think it clear that the cases will have to be stricken from the docket — there were other parties, defendants in the original cases, other than the present defendants in error, who are substantial parties to the controversy, and whose rights were affected by the judgment and decree rendered therein, and who were necessary parties to any proceeding to reverse- it, and who have not been made parties to this proceeding in error. It is too late to do so now, the judgment having been rendered December 7, 1898.
The cases will be stricken from the docket for want of j urisdiction of the court to hear them.