Hukill v. Guffey
West Virginia Supreme Court
I.— If the fact of forfeiture is not res judicata, the -plaintiff ought to have the relief prayed for in the bill. — 15 S. E. Rep. 151; 2 Pom.
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I.— If the fact of forfeiture is not res judicata, the -plaintiff ought to have the relief prayed for in the bill. — 15 S. E. Rep. 151; 2 Pom. Eq. § 880; 34 W. Ya. 375 ; 34 W. Ya. 397. II.' — At common law and now clearly by statute a judgment in an action of unlawful detainer does not settle the title to the property, and is no bar to any subsequent action in which the title is directly involved. — Code (1849) e. 134, s. 4 ; Code, c. 89, s. 4; 3 Munf. 397 ; 6 Munf. 433; 5 Litt. 185 ; 71 Cal. 428 ; 3 Sneed 115 ; 106 Ill. 189 ; 120 Ill. 9 ; 36 Kan. 604; 12 Graft 462. III. — But even if the…
1Opinion of the Court
Holt, Judse :
This is a suit in equity, brought on the 28th day of June, 1890, in the Circuit Court of Monongalia county, by Edwin M. Hukill against J. M. Guffey, Michael Murphy, Rezin Calvert, David Wise and Joseph Bushnell, praying, among other things, relief from the forfeiture of what is called the “Hays Oil Lease,” and for an injunction to the execution of a writ of possession on the judgment rendered by the Court of Appeals of this State on the 24th of June, 1890, in the case of unlawful detainer of Guffey against Hukill, reported in 34 W. Va. 49 (11 S. E. Rep. 754).
Defendants James M.…
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