Case ID: haw_17/html/0600-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "HARTWELL, J.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

ELIZA ROY, J. D. PARIS, J. D. JOHNSON, W. H. JOHNSON AND W. H. SHIPMAN, PLAINTIFFS, v. M. F. SCOTT, DEFENDANT.
    Appeal prom Circuit Judge, Third Circuit.
    Argued July 3, 1906.
    Decided July 5, 1906.
    Frear, C.J., Hartwell and Wilder, JJ.
    Injunction against trespass — right to.
    
    A bill for an injunction against trespassing on plaintiffs’ land cannot be based on a void adjudication of tbe title to tbe land.
    
      Smith & Lewis and L. J. Warren for plaintiffs.
    
      J. W. Gathcart fox defendant.
   OPINION OF THE COURT BY

HARTWELL, J.

This is an appeal by the defendant from 'a decree granting an injunction against his trespassing on the plaintiffs’ land, being the same land concerning which the action of trespass was brought before a magistrate, from whose judgment the defendant appealed to the circuit court in which a verdict for the plaintiff, was given which has been set aside on error on the ground that the case involved a question concerning the title to real estate and was therefore not within the jurisdiction of the magistrate to try.

The plaintiffs’ right to maintain their injunction suit resting upon a void adjudication of their title, which we have reversed, ante p. 598, the bill cannot be sustained. Accordingly, 'the decree appealed from is reversed, the injunction dissolved and the bill dismissed.