Court Opinion

ID: 6809704
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2022-07-23 18:52:08.051354+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T16:03:36.496373
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Harrison, J.,
delivered the opinion of the court.
This action of unlawful detainer was tried in the County Court, all matters of law and fact being submitted to the court for its judgment, and, on a regular bill of exceptions embodying the evidence, was taken by writ of error to the Circuit Court, and from that court brought by writ of error to this.
The court is of opinion that the contention of the defendant in error, here, that the case should be dismissed because no exception was taken to the judgment of the Circuit Court is not tenable. There was no necessity for a bill of exceptions to the judgment of the Circuit Court. That court reviewed the judgment of the County Court on writ of error, and could look at nothing except the record of the County Court brought up on the writ, and if the Circuit Court erred in its judgment, the error appears by the record of that court without any bill of exceptions.
The court is further of opinion that the plaintiffs in the County Court wholly failed to show that they were entitled to the possession of the land in controversy, and therefore that court did not err in giving judgment in favor of the defendant. The only matter in issue, however, was the right of possession, and therefore the declaration by the County Court in its judgment that the defendant held the fee-simple title, cannot prejudice the rights of the parties in any proceeding involving the title to said land.
The court is further of opinion that the Circuit Court erred in reversing the judgment of the County Court, and in giving judgment for the plaintiffs.
*574For the foregoing reasons, the judgment of the Circuit Court must be reversed and set aside, and this court will enter such judgment as said Circuit Court should have entered.

Reversed.