Court Opinion

ID: 9831698
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-09-01 21:18:03.25335+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T07:43:37.126613
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*466On Motion for Rehearing.
Prior to the submission of this case, defendants in error filed four motions; two for certiorari, one to dismiss the appeal, and one to strike out the transcript. These were disposed of when the case was decided, and our action noted on the motion docket, but not discussed in our opinion. We now indicate our reasons for our action thereon.
The first motion for certiorari was to show proper issuance and service of citation on two of the defendants. That motion was granted. The second motion for certiorari was to bring up as a part of the record, distress warrant proceedings had in the justice court, and filed in the district court prior to trial, under which Mary E. Head seized furniture, fixtures, and stock of goods therein shown, situated in the leased buildings. This was obviously for the purpose of showing the bond made by Mary E. Head in such distress proceeding, on which Percy J. Head and Thomas H. Head were sureties; for concurrently with such motion for certiorari was filed another motion to dismiss the writ of error on the ground that Percy J. and Thomas H. Head were necessary parties to said suit, and were not made parties to the writ 'of error proceeding. We overruled both of said motions for the reason that we did not consider said sureties as necessary parties 1o this suit. Defendant in error relies on cases holding that sureties against whom judgment has been rendered are necessary parties to an appeal; and that sureties on a replevy bond are parties adversely interested, and therefore necessary parties to a suit. These cases do not furnish an analogy to a distress proceeding. In case of an adverse judgment in the principal suit, where the property involved is replevied, the court is directed by statutes to render judgment also against the sureties on the replevy bond, without citation or further notice to them. R. S. arts. 802, 5232, 6852, 6857. Whereas article 5228, R. S., prescribing a bond for a landlord in suing out a distress warrant expressly provides: “In case the suit shall be finally decided in favor of defendant, he may bring suit against the plaintiff and his sureties on such bond, and shall recover such damages as may be awarded to him.” Under the statute, no judgment could have been rendered against the sureties on said bond even if defendant in error had lost her suit against her tenant, in the absence of a separate pleading seeking such relief by cross-action or separate suit of the defendant against such sureties, and then conditioned upon final judgment first rendered against their principal. They were not therefore necessary parties to the suit in the lower court, nor to this appeal.
. Defendant in error’s next motion was to strike out the transcript because same included affidavits as to facts, and copies of instruments filed by plaintiff in error in the court below subsequent to the date of the judgment. This motion was granted to the extent that all documents so filed by plaintiff in error subsequent to the date of the judgment were stricken out; and same were not considered by us in passing upon this appeal.
Defendant in error also complains of the reversal of the case as to all defendants below. As to the Huey-Philips Company, which was dismissed, and as to the West Texas Utilities Company, which did not answer, we think defendant in error is correct. No reason appears for reversal as to these defendants, and as to them the judgment is affirmed. As to the other defendants it should be reversed. To the extent above indicated, the motion is granted. In all other respects it is overruled.
Granted in part, and in part overruled.