Smith v. Montgomery

Decision Date06 February 1924
Docket Number(No. 7098.)<SMALL><SUP>*</SUP></SMALL>
Citation259 S.W. 1007
PartiesSMITH et al. v. MONTGOMERY.
CourtTexas Court of Appeals

Suit by Paul Gallas against W. T. Montgomery, in which G. R. Smith and another intervened. The court struck out their plea of intervention, and interveners bring error. Writ dismissed.

Joseph Ryan, of San Antonio, G. R. Smith, of McKinney, and Don A. Bliss, of San Antonio, for plaintiffs in error.

Eskridge & Williams and J. D. Dodson, all of San Antonio, for defendant in error.

SMITH, J.

Defendant in error has moved for dismissal of the writ of error, on the ground that some of the parties interested adversely to plaintiffs in error were not made parties to the petition for the writ, the citation in error, or the writ of error bond. If the point is well taken, the omission is jurisdictional, and the motion to dismiss must be granted. The main suit has been here on appeal before. Montgomery v. Gallas (Tex. Civ. App.) 202 S. W. 993; 225 S. W. 557.

In the court below the heirs of Paul Gallas, deceased, recovered a judgment against W. T. Montgomery, defendant in error herein, and the court offset that judgment with certain debts pleaded by Montgomery against Gallas. After the cause was tried and judgment rendered, plaintiffs in error, G. R. Smith and Don A. Bliss, without obtaining leave therefor, filed their plea of intervention, alleging that prior to the institution of the suit Gallas had employed them as attorneys to prosecute this suit against Montgomery, and assigned to them a one-third interest, plus $1,000, in the cause of action, and in any recovery Gallas might obtain thereon. When the trial court's attention was called to the plea of intervention, the court struck it out, on motion of Montgomery, and the interveners bring their complaint here by writ of error, asserting that they were entitled to one-third of the judgment rendered below in favor of the Gallas heirs, plus $1,000, and resisting the offsets urged by Montgomery. Plaintiffs in error represented Gallas and his heirs, as their attorneys, through the whole course of the litigation, and prosecuted the Gallas claims in the last trial and appeal. See No. 7060, Montgomery v. Gallas et al., decided December 20, 1923 (Tex. Civ. App.) 257 S. W. 956. The alleged assignment was made to plaintiffs in error to secure them in their attorneys' fees, and for advances.

Plaintiffs in error did not state the names or addresses of the Gallas heirs, or otherwise mention them, in the petition for writ of error. They did not include ...

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