Court Opinion

ID: 9831647
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-09-01 21:16:03.520295+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T07:43:36.731033
License: Public Domain

On Motion for Rehearing.
Appellee insists, among other things, in its motion for rehearing, that we were in error in not considering the dismissal by Rich and wife of their suit in the Haskell county district court, on the ground that Walker-Smith dismissed its suit in the district court of Brown .county •first; and that under the holding in Cleveland v. Ward, the jurisdiction of the Haskell county court then attached and that court had power thereafter to try the controversy. However that may be, or even conceding for the sake of this contention that the district court of Haskell-county did have jurisdiction of the controversy at the time the Riches dismissed their suit there, the order entered was one of dismissal only and has less to sustain it as an adjudication of the issues involved than the order dismissing the suit in Brown county. Clearly, the order in the suit in Haskell county was but a nonsuit, and adjudicated no rights of the parties. And if, as appellee contends, the dismissal of the Brown county suit constituted such an adjudication of the issues as to constitute res adjudicata, the order there entered would be a final judgment, and would continuously thereafter preclude the jurisdiction of the court of Haskell county over the controversy. Appellee’s motion for a rehearing is overruled.