Court Opinion

ID: 9829982
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-09-01 19:47:23.660421+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T07:43:10.573179
License: Public Domain

On Motion for Rehearing.
We have concluded upon rehearing that we were in error in dismissing the appeal. We conclude further that the judgment should be reversed, and the cause remanded.
The action was originally commenced by the bankrupt and, its receiver, who was administering the bankrupt’s affairs pending the appointment of a trustee. When the latter was appointed, it was his duty and prerogative under the law to intervene and prosecute the action. This he sought to do, by a plea in intervention, which was timely presented, but nevertheless denied by the trial court.
It seems clear that the trial court erred in refusing to permit the trustee to intervene. The latter’s plea was in due form. It stated a good cause of action, was timely filed, presented, urged, and( if in such cases the trial judge is clothed with any discretion, the ruling in this case constituted an abuse of that discretion. The appeal must rest up-on that ruling, and the pendency of another suit subsequently filed may not be invoked to cut off this appeal and thereby subject the action to defenses arising between the filing of the first and the second suits thereon.
Appellant’s motion for rehearing will be granted, and the judgment reversed, and the cause remanded.