Goodrich v. Union Oil Co.

Suit to quiet title, brought by Goodrich and Shipp, against Union Oil Company, et al. Decree quieting title in defendants. Plaintiffs bring error. We refer to them as designated at the trial. After the cause was docketed in this court, certain defendants have moved to dismiss for want of jurisdiction on the ground that other defendants at the trial, whose interests are not severable, were not made parties to the cause on error, and not named in nor served with the scire facias.

Clement Z. Goodrich, one of the plaintiffs, homesteaded the land, and United States patent was issued to him under…