Court Opinion

ID: 9760645
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-29 01:06:32.913233+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T07:29:15.368270
License: Public Domain

HALE, Justice
(concurring).
While this suit involves a summary judgment, which is a legal action, it is primarily an action for bill of review to set aside a default judgment. Being an action for bill of review, it is primarily a proceeding in equity, and should be viewed as a whole as an equitable proceeding rather than an action at law. Therefore, it occurs to me that in consideration of the case, the courts should consider the fundamental distinction between law and equity. There is a vast distinction between law and equity which I shall not here discuss. It must suffice for me to here say that such words as “justice”, “jury”, “jurisdiction” and “jurisprudence” are derived from the Latin word “jus”.
Justice is not blind, although in some instances appearing in the reported cases of this State such appears to be true. For the purpose of this appeal, we must assume that appellant is the owner of the land in controversy, and that she has commenced her action to gain possession of her land within two years after finding out that a claim to the same was being asserted adversely thereto. She has not been able to develop her evidence before a jury, and I concur in the judgment whereby the order and judgment here appealed from is reversed and the cause remanded for a jury trial.