108 P. 72 | Wyo. | 1910
This action was brought by the defendant in error, Joseph Peterson, as plaintiff, .against the Shedd Ditch Company, a corporation, Elijah H. Pitts, Lincoln Young, Edson A. Earle, Myra Earle, Robert H. Hall, Amelia S. Hall, Nellie R. Hall, F. J. Forbes and James Gillis, as defendants, to quiet the title in said plaintiff to a certain irrigation ditch known as the Shedd ditch. The defendants Lincoln Young and Elijah H. Pitts defaulted, and the other defendants filed a joint answer denying th.at plaintiff was the sole owner of said ditch and alleging that each of said answering defendants owned an interest therein. To which answer plaintiff filed a reply denying that either of said defendants had any interest in or title to said ditch. The cause was tried to the court, without a jury, resulting in a judgment in favor of plaintiff and against each and all of the defendants. A joint motion for a new trial was made by said answering defendants, which motion was denied, and they bring the case here on error.
It is contended by counsel for defendant in error, that as the motion for a new trial is a joint motion by all of said answering defendants, plaintiffs in error, and as the petition in error is also joint, and it clearly appearing that the motion for a new trial was properly denied as to some of said defendants, and as to them the judgment was right, the judgment must be affirmed. The motion for a new trial is clearly joint, not joint and several. The statement is, “Come now Shedd Ditch Company, Edson A. Earle, Myra'Earle, Robert H. Hall, Amelia S. Hall, Allie R. Hall, F. J. Forbes and Janies Gillis, the above named defendants, and move the court to set aside the judgment, decree, findings and orders of the court herein and grant a new trial
The questions presented by the record in the case at bar being only such as, by the statutes of the state and the rules of this court, must have been presented to the trial court by a motion for a new trial in order to have them reviewed here, the case comes clearly within the rule announced in the above cited cases. The rule is especially applicable to the case at bar for the reason that the defendants claim separate rights in the ditch in controversy. Following the rule established by those decisions the judgment of the District Court is affirmed.
Affirmed.