Strickland Ex Rel. Steed v. Hughes

Only parties of record to a suit have a standing therein which will enable them to take part in or control the proceedings. If they desire to seek relief with respect to the matters involved they must either obtain the status of parties in the suit or, in proper instances, institute an independent action. Thus a person not originally a party may be permitted to become a party by his own intervention. “Ini legal terminology, ‘intervention’ is the proceeding by which one not originally a party to an action is permitted, on his own application, to appear therein and join one of the original…