40 Iowa 72 | Iowa | 1874
In our opinion the petitioner should have been permitted to intervene and defend. Section 2930 of the Revision, 2683 of the Code of 1873, provides that “Any person who has an interest in the matter in litigation, in the success of either of the parties to the action, or against both, may become a party to an action between other persons, either by joining the plaintiff in claiming what is sought by the petition, or by uniting with the defendant in resisting the claim of the plaintiff, or by
That he has such interest, when it is sought to recover an unjust judgment against the county, which must be discharged in part by taxes upon his property, and when the Board of Supervisors join with the plaintiff to aid him in procuring the judgment, does not it seems to us admit of serious question.. The court erred in striking the petition of intervention from the files.
REVERSED.