Court Opinion

ID: 9447730
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-03 22:42:28.577449+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T17:31:09.765176
License: Public Domain

BRATTON, Circuit Judge
(dissenting).
According to my view, this action in its primary aspect was one to enforce a trust upon real property in Kansas. Under the terms of the alleged trust, Matthew Chadwell held the property in trust for Lois Helene Chadwell, later Lois Helene Braman. Opal Chadwell, later Opal Chadwell Ronsick, mother of Lois, brought the action for the benefit of Lois. And Rule of Civil Procedure 17(a) provides in presently material part that a party with whom on in whose name a contract has been made for the benefit of another may sue in his own name without joining with him the party for whose benefit the action is brought. The action fell within the rule. And under the rule, Opal was authorized to maintain the action without Lois being a party thereto.
The defendants were not without a procedural remedy in this action to protect themselves against the hazard of a proceeding brought by Lois in her own behalf with a different outcome. Proceeding under Rule of Civil Procedure *31919(b), they could have asked that she be made a party to this action; and by that procedure, they would have been protected against any such hazard.
It is my conclusion that the judgment should be reversed and the cause remanded for further proceedings in determining the rights of the parties under the asserted trust.