Goddard v. Harbour
Supreme Court of Kansas
Error from Chase District Court. This action was brought by John J. Harbour and Prances J. Harbour against E. A. Kinne, sheriff of Chase county, J. H. Goddard, Erastus Replogle, and Herbert E. Ball, to enjoin the enforcement of a judgment rendered in favor of Goddard against the plaintiffs for the sum of $2,209.70, and foreclosing a mortgage on their homestead, on the ground that the judgment was rendered without jurisdiction.
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Error from Chase District Court. This action was brought by John J. Harbour and Prances J. Harbour against E. A. Kinne, sheriff of Chase county, J. H. Goddard, Erastus Replogle, and Herbert E. Ball, to enjoin the enforcement of a judgment rendered in favor of Goddard against the plaintiffs for the sum of $2,209.70, and foreclosing a mortgage on their homestead, on the ground that the judgment was rendered without jurisdiction. It appeared on the trial that a summons in due form was issued and delivered to the sheriff of Chase county, where the parties resided, and^ that Ms return was duly…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered by
Allen, J. :
A motion is made to dismiss this proceeding because the sheriff and Herbert E. Ball, who were parties in the court below, are not made parties here. While they were proper parties in the district court, the sheriff had no interest in the litigation, but *746was made a defendant merely because he held an order of sale issued on the judgment, which he was about to execute, and Ball is shown by the pleadings to have had no interest in the litigation, being merely the trustee named in the original mortgage. They are not necessary parties in this…
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