Bentley v. Gordon

Grice, Justice.

Bentley et al. presented to the judge of the superior court of the Western Circuit a petition for injunction against the sheriff, against whom the judge issued a rule nisi. On the date fixed by the judge for the sheriff to show cause, he responded that he had no interest in the case, and his only connection with the matter alleged in the petition was as an officer whose *104duty it was to execute the orders of the court. At the same time counsel for Mrs. Morgan, the real party at interest, presented a motion to intervene; whereupon at the instance of counsel for complainants; who…