24 Mont. 148 | Mont. | 1900
— The defendants, the Boston & Montana Consolidated Copper & Silver Mining Company, a Montana
The court sustained the objection to this offer, and refused to consider it.
It is contended by the plaintiffs that the consideration of any matters happening since the order appointing the receiver was entered was immaterial upon the motion to vacate that order. This position is based upon the assumption that the statute allowing an appeal from an order refusing to vacate the appointment of a receiver permits a review of those facts only which existed when the order of appointment was made, and that the necessary effect of the vacation of an order appointing a receiver is to annul or avoid such order from the beginning — in other words, to destroy the order, and declare void everything done under it. The word “vacate,” however, as employed in the act of February 28, 1899, supra, is not so to be restricted in its meaning, The statute should be understood also as creating the right to appeal from an order refusing to vacate the order of appointment where the motion to vacate is based, not upon the conditions existing when the order was made, but upon facts occuring subsequently to the making of the original order; and in the case of such a motion the vacation of the order appointing the receiver is neither more nor less than the discharge of the order after it has served its purpose. Where the order appointing a receiver is vacated for reasons arising after the appointment was made, the vacation or discharge takes effect as of the day it is en
The offer made by the defendants, which the court should have required the plaintiffs to accept, renders it unnecessary to continue the receivership for the purpose of an accounting.
The order refusing to vacate the order of December 15, 1898, is therefore reversed, and the cause is remanded, with directions to the court below and its judge to admit the evidence and the offer excluded, and proceed to hear and determine the motion in accordance with the views herein expressed.
Reversed and remanded.
MODIFICATION OF THE FOREGOING OPINION.
— Upon further consideration we are satisfied that no necessity exists for a new hearing in the court below of the application to vacate or discharge the order of December 15, 1898, appointing a receiver for the Boston and Montana Consolidated Copper and Silver Mining Company of Montana. By acceptance of the offer quoted in the opinion, the plaintiffs will obtain all the redress to which they are entitled. Although the deed of conveyance and the bill of sale should have been admitted in evidence, yet the error committed in excluding them does not require the court below further to examine the merits of the application, for the offer made subsequently to the ruling by which the muniments of title were rejected, conceded, and still concedes, to the plaintiffs the right to recover a judgment awarding to them the substantial relief for which they prayed, and obviated the need of continuing the receivership. The duty of the court below was plain and unmistakable; when the offer was made the court should have ordered a judgment to be entered conformable to the terms of the offer, and then discharged the order
The last paragraph of. the original opinion is therefore amended so as to read as follows: The order refusing to va-
cate the order of December 15, 1898, is reversed, and the cause is remanded, with directions to the district court to render and cause to be entered a j udgment and decree in favor of the plaintiffs' and against the defendants in conformity to the offer made; and thereupon forthwith to vacate or discharge the order appealed from, such vacation or discharge to take effect as of the date of such judgment so to be rendered and entered, but without prejudice to any right of the receiver to be reimbursed out of the trust estate for any amounts he may have properly expended or become liable to pay, and to be compensated for his services.
Reversed.