Gwynn v. Hamilton's Adm'r
Supreme Court of Alabama
Appeal from tbe Chancery Court of Monroe. Heard before the Hon. Wade Keyes. Linda Dean, who was the daughter of John Dean, intermarried with William R. Hamilton in 1823, being at the time the owner of a negro woman named Hannah, who then had two children, and who was in the possession of said John Dean. On the death of said Dean, intestate, prior to 1837, letters of administration on his estate were granted to John Dean, jr., and Robert Lee.
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Appeal from tbe Chancery Court of Monroe. Heard before the Hon. Wade Keyes. Linda Dean, who was the daughter of John Dean, intermarried with William R. Hamilton in 1823, being at the time the owner of a negro woman named Hannah, who then had two children, and who was in the possession of said John Dean. On the death of said Dean, intestate, prior to 1837, letters of administration on his estate were granted to John Dean, jr., and Robert Lee. Mrs. Hamilton died, intestate, in 1837, before the final settlement of the estate of her father, leaving as her heirs-at-law her two children, Rebecca,…
1Opinion of the CourtWalker, J.
Estoppels by judgment operate mutually, and a party not bound by a judgment can not claim that another is estopped by it. — Bentley v. Cleveland, 22 Ala. 821; Edmondson v. Montague, 14 Ala. 371; Co. Lit. 352 a; 4 Bacon’s Abridgment, 190 ; Ross v. Cobb, 9 Terger, 463-470.
The distributees of the estate of Linda Hamilton could not be estopped by any judgment in the case of Hamilton, as administrator of that estate, against Dean and Lee, because such judgment would be, as to them, resinter alios acta. — Neil v. McCombs, 2 Yerger, 10; Osgood v. The Manhattan Co., 3 Cowen, 622; Deneal v. Archer and…
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