Montana Code Annotated 2023

TITLE 25. CIVIL PROCEDURE

CHAPTER 15. LIABILITY OF JOINT DEBTORS

Part 1. Applying Judgment to Joint Debtor

Summoning Joint Debtor Not Originally Served

25-15-101. Summoning joint debtor not originally served. When a judgment is recovered against one or more of several persons, jointly indebted upon an obligation, by proceeding as provided in Rule 4(s), M.R.Civ.P., those who were not originally served with the summons and did not appear to the action may be summoned to show cause why they should not be bound by the judgment in the same manner as though they had been originally served with the summons.

History: En. Sec. 291, p. 104, Bannack Stat.; re-en. Sec. 346, p. 205, L. 1867; re-en. Sec. 420, p. 119, Cod. Stat. 1871; re-en. Sec. 446, p. 161, L. 1877; re-en. Sec. 446, 1st Div. Rev. Stat. 1879; re-en. Sec. 459, 1st Div. Comp. Stat. 1887; re-en. Sec. 1780, C. Civ. Proc. 1895; re-en. Sec. 7129, Rev. C. 1907; re-en. Sec. 9762, R.C.M. 1921; Cal. C. Civ. Proc. Sec. 989; re-en. Sec. 9762, R.C.M. 1935; R.C.M. 1947, 93-8101.