Reynolds v. Jones
Supreme Court of Arkansas
Appeal from Randolph Circuit Court in Chancery. John B. McCaleb, Judge. STATEMENT BY THE COURT. This is a case from the Randolph circuit court, and originally an appeal to that court from the probate court of Randolph county.
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Appeal from Randolph Circuit Court in Chancery. John B. McCaleb, Judge. STATEMENT BY THE COURT. This is a case from the Randolph circuit court, and originally an appeal to that court from the probate court of Randolph county. The subject-matter of the proceeding is the final account of Reynolds as guardian of Hattie Jones, nee Kelsey, and her exceptions thereto, which exceptions were sustained, account re-stated accordingly, and ordered recorded, and an appeal to the circuit court, where substantially the same judgment was rendered, and from that this appeal is taken. Judgment against…
1Opinion of the Court
Bunn, C. J.,
(after stating- the facts.) The principal question in the case is one of pleading-, that is to say, whether or not appellee had a rig-ht to split up her claims for back rents, or for use and occupation, or for damag-es for the retention of the possession of her lands.
It is a well established rule of law that a single cause of action cannot be split, in order that separate suits may be brought for the various parts of what really constitutes but one demand. It is said by the court in Dutton v. Shaw, 35 Mich. 431, that “the principle which prevents the splitting up of causes of…
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