Court Opinion

ID: 9829139
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-09-01 19:01:24.230872+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T07:42:57.686793
License: Public Domain

On Motion for Rehearing.
The defendant in error, by motion for rehearing, asserts we were in error in refusing to entertain the aijpeal in this case, and in holding the judgment appealed from is not final. That a judgment against a partnership may be taken by service on one of the partners and the member of the firm served, is so well settled that the citation of authorities is unnecessary. In order to obtain such judgment, against the Wichita Mill & Elevator Company, it was not necessary to bring M. Lasker in the case by service of citation, is' not questioned by this court;' but defendant in error did serve him'with citation, and, having brought him into the case to answer, *17we held that it was necessary to dispose of him before final judgment could he entered. The defendant in error, in his motion, advances the proposition: “If the defendant in error had dismissed M. Lasker from the suit, he would thereby have dismissed the partnership of Wichita Mill & Elevator Company, and would not have been entitled to a judgment against said company.” We concede the correctness of the proposition, and the authorities cited by defendant in error sustain the proposition (McManus v. Cash, 101 Tex. 261, 108 S. W. 800; Frank v. Tatum, 87 Tex. 205, 25 S. W. 409; Glasscock v. Price, 92 Tex. 271, 47 S. W. 965); but where we differ from defendant in error is he did indirectly what he could not do directly, that is, took no judgment against M. Lasker after making him personally a party, and in effect discharged or dismissed him by taking no judgment against him. If he could not dismiss him, how could he refuse to take judgment against him? If he was a party which could'not be dismissed, then he was a party which the judgment should dispose of in some way. We cite the following additional authorities as supporting our conclusions heretofore given in this case: Benge v. Panhandle Land Co., 145 S. W. 318; Benge v. Sledge, 132 S. W. 873.
The motion for rehearing is overruled.