Kelly v. Griffin
Decision Date | 10 February 1910 |
Citation | 165 Ala. 309,51 So. 789 |
Parties | KELLY v. GRIFFIN ET AL. |
Court | Alabama Supreme Court |
Appeal from Circuit Court, Dale County; A. A. Evans, Judge.
Action by E. T. Kelly against Henry Griffin and others. Judgment for defendants, and plaintiff appeals. Affirmed.
R. H Walker, for appellant H. L. Martin, for appellees
Ejectment by appellant against appellees. On September 4, 1901 appellant filed his bill against H. L. Martin and others seeking the cancellation of certain mortgages executed by him, on the ground that they had been paid and satisfied, or in the alternative, praying an accounting and redemption, if mistaken in the averment that the mortgages had been entirely satisfied. The respondents answered the bill, and Martin's extended answer is, with appellant's original bill, set out in this bill of exceptions, having been admitted in evidence over appellant's objection. The same lands were the subject, in part, of the litigation invited by the bill in equity. The answer of Martin controverted the salient features of the appellant's bill, explicitly denying that the mortgages were paid and satisfied. From the records of the chancery court in that cause, introduced over appellant's objection, it appears conclusively that the bill in equity was dismissed for want of prosecution. Being at issue as indicated, under rule 28 of chancery practice (Civ. Code, p. 1537), the decree of dismissal, not being otherwise ordered, operated an adjudication of the merits, and a bar to another suit for the same subject-matter.
The appellant's effort in this action, to summarize, is to assert the first alternative sought in his bill in equity viz., that the mortgages had been paid and satisfied, and, in consequence, that the title conveyed by the mortgages had become, under the statute (Code 1896, § 1067; Code 1907, § 4899), divested. The parties defendant in this action of ejectment succeeded to their titles in virtue of a regular foreclosure of the mortgages questioned in the bill in equity, and which, under the decree of dismissal and the effect the rule (28) gave that action, absolutely concluded against any right of appellant to reinvestigate the matter of the satisfaction, before foreclosure, of these mortgages. He cannot recover against the titles of these respondents, whose rights in the premises flow, in succession, from the mortgages which, on the dismissal of appellant's bill as...
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