Alexander v. Woods
Alexander v. Woods
Opinion of the Court
delivered the opinion of the court.
The appellants filed suit in the circuit court against the appellees, based upon an injunction bond given in a suit which has been pending in the chancery court. The appellees in the chancery court had obtained a temporary injunction against appellants for reasons unnecessary to be herein stated. A temporary injunction was granted and a written suggestion of damages which would be asked by the defendants upon the dissolution.
Two reasons are assigned in this court by the appellees as to why this was proper — the first being, that no damages were sustained by the issuing of the temporary injunction; second, that the dismissal of the case without awarding any damages was res adjudicata on the question of damages. The chancellor did not pass upon the question of damages in that court; consequently it is not res adjudicata.
That this suit may be maintained at law is settled by section 624, Code of 1906. The dismissal of the bill in the chancery court operated as a dissolution of the injunction and established the fact that it had been wrongfully sued out, and that the appellants here are entitled to recover whatever damages they sustained by the issuing of same. Yale v. Baum, 70 Miss. 225, 11 So. 879; Baggett v. Beard, 43 Miss. 120.
Reversed and remanded.
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- 1. Judgments. Oonclusiveness. Matters not decided. Damages. Where a chancellor in dismissing a suit wherein a temporary injunction had been issued, did not pass upon the question of damages,- that matter was not res adjudicata. 2. Injunction. Action for wrongful injunction. Dismissal of suit. Under Code 1906, section 624, providing that the party claiming damages upon the dissolution of an injunction may have the same determined and decreed by the chancellor, but that nothing contained in such section shall prevent the party from maintaining a suit on the injunction bond if his damages shall not be assessed as provided for in the act. Where a suit in which a temporary injunction had been issued was dismissed, which established the fact that the injunction had been wrongfully suea out, the defendants in such suit were entitled to recover damages on the bond, which they sustained by the issuance of the writ. 3. Injunction. Dissolution by dismissal of suit. The dismissal of a bill in chancery operates as a dissolution of a temporary injunction granted thereunder.