Robertson v. Mena Bonded Warehouse Co.
Supreme Court of Arkansas
Appeal from Polk Circuit Court; James S. Steel, Judge; The judgment of the court acquitting Lyons is not res judicata and can not be plead in bar or as a defense.' Bouvier’s Diet., Rawles’ Revision, pp. 898-9, and cases cited. A judgment is only conclusive between parties and their privies. 96 Ark. 451; 82 Id. 191-414; 86 Id.' 105. Neither Mena Bonded Warehouse Company nor appellant were parties to the criminal action.
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Appeal from Polk Circuit Court; James S. Steel, Judge; The judgment of the court acquitting Lyons is not res judicata and can not be plead in bar or as a defense.' Bouvier’s Diet., Rawles’ Revision, pp. 898-9, and cases cited. A judgment is only conclusive between parties and their privies. 96 Ark. 451; 82 Id. 191-414; 86 Id.' 105. Neither Mena Bonded Warehouse Company nor appellant were parties to the criminal action. If the certificate of the test of the scales used by appellant in weighing the cotton was not in proper form, this would not work a forfeiture of his right to collect his…
1Opinion of the CourtWood, J.
This action was brought by the appellant against the appellees. The appellant alleged that he was the cotton weigher of Polk County, Arkansas;. that the/ Mena Bonded Warehouse Company, hereafter called company, is a corporation organized under act 266 of the Acts of 1917; that C. B. Lyons is the manager of such company; that the company through Lyons wrongfully,wilfully, and unlawfully engaged in receiving and weighing cotton and other commodities and farm products offered for sale at the city of Mena, Arkansas, during the.' years 1918 and 1919, and thereby prevented appellant from weighing…
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