25 Tex. 98 | Tex. | 1860
This suit was instituted by Lund against Bryan upon three promissory notes. Service of the petition of Lund was made on Bryan in the usual manner. On the same day on which the judgment was rendered, Bryan not having answered, a petition of intervention was filed by Edgorton, Dunning and Wright, three citizens of the State of Hew York, composing a mercantile firm, alleging that they were the real owners of the notes sued upon. They prayed to be made plaintiffs in lieu of Lund, and asked for judgment against Bryan for the amount due upon the notes. The petition of intervention was filed by the same attorneys who filed the original petition for Lund. Judgment by default was rendered in favor of Lund, for the use of the interveners, there having been no notice to Bryan of the petition of intervention so far as is disclosed by the record. The error coinplained of is that the judgment was rendered against Bryan, in favor of the intervenors, without any notice to him that they had intervened in the suit.
There seems to have been an acquiescence on the part of Lund to the intervention of Edgorton, Dunning and Wright, and an as
See the case of Price v. Wiley, 19 Tex., 142, and the case of McFadin v. McGreal, decided at the present term.
The judgment of the court below is reversed and the cause remanded.
Reversed and remanded.