Hubbard v. Flynt
Hubbard v. Flynt
Opinion of the Court
delivered the opinion of the court.
It is not true that appellant- was compelled to exhibit a supplemental bill in her former suit to have the sale made after her bill was filed set aside. She might have done so ; but she had the right to await the result of her suit, and then to exhibit her bill to assail the proceeding in execution of the power of sale in the mortgage. The matter of this bill was not adjudicated in the former suit. It was not presented by the pleadings, and, therefore, could not have been adjudicated. The mere fact that it might have been introduced into the suit if the complainant had chosen to do so, does not make such matter res judicata. There is a distinction between this and matter involved in the record of the former case, and which, being so involved, might have been litigated and decided, and which is held to be a matter adjudicated because it might have been. The bill presents facts entitling the complainant to relief, and the demurrer should be overruled.
The decree sustaining the demurrer is reversed, the demurrer overruled, and the cause remanded, for the defendant to answer the bill within thirty days after the mandate herein shall have been filed in the court below.
Reference
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- Nancy Hubbard v. H. A. Flynt
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- Res Adjudicata. Chancery practice. Bill asserting trust. Sale. Bill to set aside. Where a suit is pending in which the complainant is seeking to establish a trust in a tract of land against the holder of the legal title and his mortgagee, and the latter causes the land to be sold under a power in his mortgage, and purchases the same, the complainant may file an amended or supplemental bill to set aside such sale, if there be any ground therefor, but he also has the right to await the result of his suit, and then file an original bill, upon sufficient cause, attacking such proceedings of sale; and a bill filed for this purpose cannot be defeated on the ground of res adjudicata, if the matters contained therein were not presented by the pleadings in the former suit. And the mere fact that such matters might have been introduced into the former suit if the complainant had chosen to do so, does not make them res adjudicata.