Meehan v. Watson
Supreme Court of Arkansas
Appeal from Woodruff Circuit Court in Chancery. Grant Green, Jr., Special Judge. STATEMENT BY THE COURT. Appellants, Meehan & McGowan, sued appellee in the circuit court upon a mutual running account for an alleged balance due of $714.49, embracing transactions between the parties of about three years duration, amounting in the aggregate to over $4,500; and about the same time Charley Meehan brought suit before a justice of the peace for an alleged balance due for rents of…
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Appeal from Woodruff Circuit Court in Chancery. Grant Green, Jr., Special Judge. STATEMENT BY THE COURT. Appellants, Meehan & McGowan, sued appellee in the circuit court upon a mutual running account for an alleged balance due of $714.49, embracing transactions between the parties of about three years duration, amounting in the aggregate to over $4,500; and about the same time Charley Meehan brought suit before a justice of the peace for an alleged balance due for rents of $.199.53, which cause was brought into the circuit court by appeal by the appellant, Chas. Meehan. At the August term of…
1Opinion of the Court
Hughes, J.,
(after stating the facts.) Section 5707 of Sandels & Hill's Digest provides that “whenever several suits shall be pending in the same court by the same plaintiff against the same defendant, for causes of action which may be joined, or where several suits are pending in the same court by the same plaintiff against several defendants, which may be joined, the court in which the same may be prosecuted may, in its dis•cretion, order such suits to be consolidated into one action.”
We do not think this case comes within the above statute, because the plaintiffs are not the same in the two…
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