Court Opinion

ID: 9669945
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-24 03:11:28.740542+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T09:42:13.928126
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*186Clinton,
J., concurring.
The rule that all cotenants must join in an action to recover possession of personal property should not be held to be applicable to those cases where possession is sought from a stranger to the property, but only to those cases where the party from whom possession is sought is another cotenant or one claiming under another cotenant. The rule is properly applied in the opinion in this case and in First Nat. Bank v. Morgan, 172 Neb. 849, 112 N. W. 2d 26, cited in the opinion. I do not agree that the rule should have the broad scope inferable from the statement of the rule in the first sentence of the fifth full paragraph of the opinion or the first sentence of the text of the citation, 20 Am. Jur. 2d, Cotenancy and Joint Ownership, § 113, p. 212. The rule is probably applicable only where the effect of the action would be to exclude from possession a co-tenant or one claiming under a cotenant.