Haisten v. TANNER-BRICE COMPANY

Duckworth, Chief Justice.

Under Code § 3-601, no suitor may prosecute two actions in the courts at the same time, for the same cause, and against the same party; and if such suits are commenced at different times, the pendency of the former shall be a good defense to the latter. While in this case the first suit was one for equitable relief, the actual prayers of the intervenors therein were for title to the alleged property in dispute to be decreed in them as against the defendants, and the ejectment suit brought by the intervenors involved title to the same land against the same defendants,…