 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1887 - 892 pages
...the first action were admissible in evidence on the trial of the second. It is perfectly well settled that the judgment of a court of concurrent jurisdiction directly upon the point is, as a plea, a bar; and where there has been no opportunity to plead it, and it is offered in evidence, it is admissible... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1887 - 712 pages
...but the Supreme Court of the state reversed the decision, declaring the law to be well settled that a judgment of a court of concurrent jurisdiction directly upon the point is, as a plea or evidence, conclusive between the same parties upon the same matter directly in question in another... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1887 - 716 pages
...but the Supreme Court of the state reversed the decision, declaring the law to be well settled that a judgment of a court of concurrent jurisdiction directly upon the point is, as a plea or evidence, conclusive between the same parties upon the same matter directly in question, in another... | |
 | Stewart Rapalje, Robert Linn Lawrence - Law - 1888 - 674 pages
...it appear to the court that it is for one and the same cause. In civil actions, the general rule is that the judgment of a court of concurrent jurisdiction...a bar, or as evidence, conclusive between the same partías upon the same matter directly in question in another court. The exception to this rule is... | |
 | Joseph Vere Woodman - Law reports, digests, etc - 1888 - 906 pages
...considered that the doctrine had no application in the present case, the judgment relied on not being the judgment of a Court of concurrent jurisdiction directly upon the point upon the same matter; and, after an examination of the whole evidence, restored the judgment of the... | |
 | Melville Madison Bigelow - Estoppel - 1890 - 864 pages
...follows : ' From the variety of cases relative to judgments being given in evidence in civil suits, these two deductions seem to follow as generally true: first,...plea a bar, or as evidence conclusive, between the parties, upon the same matter directly in question in another court ; secondly, that the judgment of... | |
 | John Houston Merrill, Charles Frederic Williams, Thomas Johnson Michie, David Shephard Garland - Law - 1893 - 1116 pages
...said: " From the variety of cases relative to judgments being given in evidence in civil suits, these two deductions seem to follow as generally true: first,...plea, a bar, or as evidence conclusive, between the parties, upon the same matter directly in question in another court; secondly, that the judgment of... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1894 - 910 pages
...in Smith v. Kernochen, 7 How. 198, 217: "The case, therefore, falls within the general rule, that a judgment of a court of concurrent jurisdiction directly...or as evidence conclusive between the same parties or privies upon the same matters when VOL. cm — 17 258 Opinion of the Court. directly in question... | |
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From the variety of cases relative to judgments being given in evidence in civil cases, these two deductions seem to follow as generally true, First, that the judgment of a court of concurrent jurisdiction, directly upon the point, is, as a plea, a bar,... 
