Applegate v. Dowell

• Decision Date: 16 January 1889
• Citation: 20 P. 429,17 Or. 299
• Parties: APPLEGATE v. DOWELL.
• Court: Oregon Supreme Court

20 P. 429

17 Or. 299

APPLEGATE v. DOWELL.

Supreme Court of Oregon

January 16, 1889

Appeal from circuit court, Douglas county.

For opinion on former appeal, see 16 P. 651.

(Syllabus by the Court.)

The decision of this court becomes the law of the case, and, upon a second appeal, is binding upon the court and the parties, and from which the court is not at liberty to depart.

R. & E.B. Williams and J.W. Hamilton, for respondent.

James F. Watson and B.F. Dowell, for appellant.

STRAHAN, J.

When this cause was before this court on the former appeal, ( Applegate v. Dowell, 15 Or. 513, 16 P. 651,) the law applicable to the facts then presented was fully stated and discussed. The cause was tried as an action at law, under the act of 1885, and, finding error, this court remanded the case for a new trial. Upon the second trial no new facts that were material were developed, and the court below simply applied the principles of law announced by this court to the facts as they appeared, which resulted in a decree for the plaintiff, from which the defendant has appealed.

Upon this appeal we are not at liberty to depart from the law announced in the case on the previous appeal. The decision then made became the law of the case, binding alike upon the court and the parties on any subsequent appeal. Powell v. Railroad Co., 14 Or. 22, 12 P. 83; 1 Herm.Estop. p. 118, note 1.