Weathersby v. Pearl River Lumber Co.
Weathersby v. Pearl River Lumber Co.
Opinion of the Court
delivered the opinion of the court.
This suit was first brought in the year 1900, when the bill was demurred to because (1) there was no equity on its face; (2) failure to deraign title; (3) no title shown in complainant; .(4) bill shows title in defendant; (5) bill fails to show any redemption by complainant of the land sold for taxes. This demurrer was sustained on September 20, 1900, the decree being in the following words: “This cause having been set down for hearing on bill and demurrer, it is ordered by consent that the demurrer be sustained and the bill dismissed, and that complainant have sixty days in which to file amended bill, if he so desires.” There the litigation ended; no amended bill ever having been filed, or sought to be filed. That decree was a final adjudication of what was pleaded, or might properly have been pleaded, in the bill in
Affirmed. .
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- Edward Weathersby v. Pearl River Lumber Company
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- Chancery Practice. Recrees. Res adjudicate,. Demurrer. A decree sustaining a demurrer to a bill in equity and dismissing the suit, subject to complainant’s right to amend the bill in a designated time, is, after the expiration of the time and complainant’s failure to amend, a final adjudication of what was or might properly have been pleaded, in the ease, and bars another suit on the same cause of action.