Dibert v. Durham
Dibert v. Durham
Opinion of the Court
delivered the opinion of the court.
(After stating the facts as above.) The bill in this case cannot be maintained. No assault is made upon the final decree recovered by Mrs. Dibert against appellee in the chancery court of Pearl River county and duly affirmed by the supreme court Durham v. Dibert, 70 So. 839. By the terms of that decree appellant was permitted to recover upon the last note of three thousand dollars and this decree operates as a monetary judgment, ánd its integrity cannot now be questioned. This final -decree in the first suit adjudicated liability to Mrs. Dibert in the sum shown by the execution sought to be enjoined. There is here no showing of fraud, accident, or mistake in the rendition of the judgment here attempted to be enjoined. Relief against the judgment itself is really not prayed for. The bill of complaint admits, and is bound to admit, liability for the. full amount of the judgment rendered in the former suit, but the payment of this judgment is asked to be delayed until appellee as complainant litigates with and fixes liability against appellant upon his alleged cross-action for damages. This is an effort not only to delay the execution of a solemn judgment, but to satisfy this judgment by an unliquidated demand for damages. In the enforcement of his alleged claim for damages growing out of the breach of the written lease, complainant has not been diligent, and the bill would appear to come within the ruling of this court in Gum Carbo Co. v. New Orleans German Gazette, 90 Miss. 177, 43 So. 82. Whatever claim appellee has mow he possessed when Mrs. Dibert filed her suit against him. There is no charge of fraud in the transfer or assignment of the notes. It is affirmatively shown that appellant is the rightful owner of the three thousand dollar note and her right to collect upon this-note has never been challenged. See Smedes v. Ilsley, 68 Miss. 590, 10 So. 75.
But there is a still further and perhaps a more fatal objection to the bill. -No contractual relationship exists between complainant and Mrs. Dibert or her deceased
In our judgment, the bill of complaint does not state a case. The decree of the learned chancellor will be reversed, the demurrer sustained, and the cause remanded.
Reversed, demurrer sustained, and_ cause remanded.
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- 1. Judgment. Equitable Belief. Grounds. Defense not interposed. Where a corporation leased turpentine lands for two turpentine seasons; the lease providing that the lessee defendant shipuld be reimbursed at a fixed rate per cup for any land included in the contract of which the lessor might deprive him of possession and the lessor corporation assigned the rent notes to its secretary and general manager, who was the owner of practically, all of the capital stock of the lessor corporation and these notes on his death passed to his wife, who recovered judgment thereon. In .such case since any breach of the lessor’s agreement entitling the lessee to reimbursement occurred before judgment on the notes such judgment was conclusive, and execution thereon' could not be enjoined, there being no evidence of fraud, accident or mistakes. 2. Same. In such case since the agreement for reimbursement was by the corporation, and not by the secretary and general manager, the lessee though deprived of turpentine privileges on a part of the lands, had no cause of action against the widow of the secretary, for the only cause of action which could have been asserted against the manager if living was one sounding in tort, based on trespass and no such action was maintained' against him in his lifetime or against his estate after his death. S. Execution. Injunction. Grounds. In such case where there was no fraud, accident or mistake in the execution of the written lease and no showing that the turpentine privileges were not worth the consideration agreed to be paid, the execution on a judgment on the rent notes in favor of the transferee will not be enjoined, because the lessee had a right of action for damages against the lessor, neither the lessor nor transferee being insolvent.