86 P. 498 | Utah | 1906
This was an action brought by the appellants as plaintiffs against the respondents as defendants, to have declared fraudulent and void a chattel mortgage executed by Shirley P. Ash in his lifetime to the defendant bank. Hume, the administrator of the estate of Shirley P. Ash, deceased, and the defendant bank, appeared in the action ,and filed separate answers and were represented by separate counsel, Heywood & McCormick representing the bank, and Henderson & Macmillan representing Hume. The case was tried before the court and findings and judgment were for the defendants. Plaintiff’s motion for new trial was noticed, “to the above-named defendants and Heywood & McCormick, attorneys for defendant bank, and Henderson & Macmillan, attorneys for defendant Hume.” The motion being overruled, the plaintiffs appealed. The notice of appeal was served only on Heywood & McCormick. It was not served -on Hume or his attorneys. The notice of appeal was noticed by plaintiffs-, “to Heywood & McCormick, attorneys for the defendants,” and Heywood & McCormick, in acknowledging service of notice, signed their names above the words, “attorneys for defendants.” A motion is made by respondents to dismiss the appeal because the notice was not served on Hume or his attorneys. The statute (section 3305, Rev. St. 1898, as amended by chapter 62, p. 83, Laws 1899) requires the notice of appeal to be served “on the adverse party or his attorney.” It is conceded by counsel for appellants that Hume is an adverse party within the meaning of the statute, and undoubtedly he is such an adverse party. If no notice was served on him or his attorneys, it follows that the appeal must be dismissed. (Bank v. Savings, Loan & Building Co., 13 Utah 189, 44 Pac. 1043; Stephens v. Stevens, 27 Utah 261, 75 Pac. 619; 2 Spelling, New Tr. & App., sections 536, 537.)
Let the appeal be dismissed. Such is the order.