Ingram & Legrand Lumber Co. v. Burgin Lumber Co.

Atkinson, Presiding Justice.

1. “Decrees ordinarily bind only parties and their privies; but a pending suit shall be a general notice of an equity or claim to all the world from the time the petition shall be filed and docketed; and if the same shall be duly prosecuted and shall not be collusive, one who purchases pending the suit shall be affected by the decree rendered therein.” Code, § 37-117.

2. If a lessee for sawmill purposes of growing trees sells the same on a valuable consideration, and afterwards colludes with a third person, who at the time of the sale has a suit pending against such…