Chaput v. Bock’s Empirical Analysis

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8 state decisions

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1. “counsel for the plaintiffs, to facilitate a decision upon the matter pleaded in abatement, admitted broadly, if it was not already admitted by the reply, that each defendant claims in severalty the particular lot occupied by him, and makes no claim to any other part of the tract. Thereupon the defendants moved for judgment upon the pleadings and admissions made by plaintiffs' counsel. The court sustained the defendants' motion and entered an order dismissing plaintiffs' petition without prejudice.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Essen v. Adams

2. “There is no such common purpose or design alleged as will justify the holding of one set of these defendants in court while plaintiff is litigating with others over matters in which they are not even charged with any complicity. Our statute is liberal; but it will not authorize the indiscriminate blending of actions in which the defendants are not the same, and have no common interest with the plaintiff or each other.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Essen v. Adams

3. “the averment in said several answers contained, to the effect that each of said several defendants claims `to be the owner in fee of the separate parcel or lot of ground or land embraced in the United States Survey No. 1583,' or words to that effect, but plaintiffs deny that said several defendants own such several tracts or parcels claimed by them.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Essen v. Adams