Sturdy v. Jackaway

Citations

• 71 U.S. 174
• 18 L. Ed. 387
• 4 Wall. 174
• 1866 U.S. LEXIS 867

Syllabus

<p>A final judgment pronounced in an action of ejectment, where the claim of title in fee simple absolute by the parties respectively was the solo subject of controversy, instituted and prosecuted under and according to the forms and in the manner prescribed by the statute laws of the State of Arkansas, that is to say, by a suit between the real litigants by name and where the land is accurately described, is a valid legal bar to a like action subsequently instituted between the same parties for the same lands or premises, involving the same identical title and rights to the possession of such lands or premises and none other.</p> <p>Semble. The doctrine is applicable generally in ejectments, in the form above described, in those States where no provision is made by statute for a subsequent trial.</p>