Bodnar v. Brinsfield

How courts have described this case

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• so long as necessary parties are aware of litigation and have opportunity to participate, they are bound by result of such litigation
• so long as necessary parties are aware of litigation and have opportunity to participate, they are bound by result of such litigation
• “At that point, the court has at least discretion to dismiss with prejudice. We hold that . . . [the circuit court] did not abuse [its] discretion in so dismissing [the complaint].”
• “persons who are directly interested in a suit and have knowledge of its pendency and refuse or neglect to appear and avail themselves of their rights are concluded by the proceedings as effectually as if they were named in the record”
• failure to join a necessary party could be raised on appeal

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).