Stone v. United States
Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
In Error to the Circuit Court of the United States for the District of Washington. Action by the United States of America against John H. Stone to recover the value of certain timber cut and removed from public lands. There was a judgment for plaintiffs, and defendant brings error.
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In Error to the Circuit Court of the United States for the District of Washington. Action by the United States of America against John H. Stone to recover the value of certain timber cut and removed from public lands. There was a judgment for plaintiffs, and defendant brings error. This action was brought to recover the value of certain timber alleged to have been taken from the public lands of the United States, and converted by the defendant (plaintiff in error) to his own use. There was pending at the same time a similar action, wherein the United States were plaintiffs, and John H. Stone,…
1Opinion of the CourtHawley, District Judge
(after stating the facts). 1. Did the court err in sustaining the demurrer to that part of defendant’s an*670swer which pleaded the indictment, trial, and verdict of acquittal in the Idaho court, and in excluding the same when offered in evidence?
That the judgment df- a court of competent jurisdiction, directly upon the point, is, as a plea, a bar, or as evidence, conclusive between the same parties upon the same matter directly in question in another court, is too well settled to require discussion. It is also well settled that the plea of res adjudicata, except in certain special cases, is not…
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