Case Name: CLEGHORN v. CLEGHORN et al.
Court: New York Supreme Court, General Term
Jurisdiction: New York
Decision Date: 1894-06-20
Citations: 29 N.Y.S. 432
Docket Number: 
Parties: CLEGHORN v. CLEGHORN et al.
Judges: 
Reporter: West's New York Supplement
Volume: 29
Pages: 432–432

Head Matter:
CLEGHORN v. CLEGHORN et al.
(Supreme Court, General Term, Fifth Department.
June 20, 1894.)
Action—Misjoinder oe Causes.
Where a complaint states causes of action for partition, for ejectment, and for an accounting as to rents of real estate, and none of the defendants are Interested in all the causes of action, there is misjoinder.
Appeal from special term, Niagara county.
Action by Edith M. Cleghorn against Jennie Cleghorn and others. From an interlocutory judgment sustaining demurrers to the complaint, plaintiff appeals.
Affirmed.
Argued before DWIGHT, P. J., and LEWIS, HAIGHT, and BRADLEY, JJ.
Henry M. Davis, for appellant.
E. C. Hart, for respondents O’Connor.
S. Wallace Dempsey, for respondents Keough.
Charles Hickey, for respondent Spaulding.

Opinion:
LEWIS, J.
The decision of the court sustaining the demurrers was handed to the clerk, and filed by him, during the sitting of the court. The plaintiff, laboring under the erroneous impression that the decision had not been made and filed within 20 days after the final adjournment of the court, made a motion, for that reason, for a new trial, under section 1010 of the Code of Civil Procedure. Another alleged error upon which the plaintiff relied was that the court's decision failed to state the grounds upon which the demurrers were sustained. It was, notwithstanding such omission, in proper form. Eaton v. Wells, 82 N. Y. 576; Wood v. Lary, 124 N. Y. 83, 26 N. E. 338. The plaintiff's motions were properly denied.
She also appeals from an interlocutory judgment which was entered upon the decision of the demurrers. The complaint is quite a remarkable one. It attempts to state a cause of action for partition, as against some of the defendants; as to others, it is an action in ejectment; as to others, for an accounting as to the rents, issues, and profits of real estate. It seeks to determine the rights in real estate, as between the plaintiff and some of the defendants, and again it seeks to remove alleged clouds upon the title to the land. It is quite clear that there is an improper joinder of .causes of action. None of the defendants appear to be interested in all of the causes of action stated in the complaint. The demurring defendants are each severally interested in but one of the several causes of action. We are inclined to the opinion that the complaint fails to state a cause of action against any of the defendants. The judgment and orders appealed from should be affirmed, with costs of the appeal from the judgment, but with leave to the plaintiff to amend the complaint within 20 days upon payment of the costs of the demurrer and of this appeal. All concur.