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V. FRANCIS.
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and without applying the same to the payment of tbe mortgage debt. It also appears that complainants, after the execution, but before the recording of the mortgage, and without notice of its existence, sold goods on credit to Robinson & Atherton, which, becoming part of the stock, came under the lien of the mortgage. The facts, therefore, . bring the case clearly within the rules announced in Orooks v. Stuart, 2 McCrary, 13; S. C. 7 FED. REP. 800; Argall v. Seymour, 4 McCrary, 55; and Robinson v. Elliott, 22 Wall. 513, and the mortgage must be held invalid and void as against the complainants. So far as the defendant Cole is concerned it does not appear that he ever reaped any benefit from the mortgage. On the contrary, it appears that the mortgage, although executed to him as grantee, was delivered to Town, Noble & Co. when the loan was effected, and passed from the control of the defendant Cole at that time. The failure to record the mortgage, and the other facts rendering the mortgage void, are attributable, not to Cole, but to Town, Noble & Co., and hence the defendant Cole is not personally responsible to complainants herein. Complainants are therefore entitled to a decree declaring the chattel mortgage void as to them, and estopping 4efendants from asserting any prior right thereunder against the fund realized from the sale of the mortgaged property, and ordering said Town, Noble and Delamater to pay to complainants, within 60 days from date, the amount due complainants on the judgment in theirfavor against Rob· inson & Atherton, with interest and costs, and that if said sum is not paid as ordered that execution against said parties may issue for the collection of said sum.
V.
FRA.NCIS and others.! V.
WILLIA.MS
SAME.!
(Oircuit Oourt, E. D. Louisiana. Juno 2, 1884.) EQUITY .JURISDICTION.
A court of equity can interfere, by an order, with a party conducting acriminal procedure only when the parties sought to be enjoined have, as plaintiffs, submitted themselves to the court by a bill of equity as to the matter or right affected by or involved in the criminal procedure; but the pursuer and pursued must be identical in the case, i. e., the defendant in the bill and in the indictment must be the same person, and the person preferring the bill and the criminal charge mnst also be the same. As to parties and controversy the inquiry is analogous to that in regard to the plea of Us pendens.
On Demurrers, and on Motions to Quash Restraining Orders. S. C. 19 FED. REP. 670. 1 Reported
l:3ee
by Joseph P. Hornor, Esq., of the New Orleans bar.
568
FEDERAL REPORTER.
Joseph P. Hornor and Francis W. Baker, for complainants. James R. Beckwith, for defendants. BILLINGS, J. When these causes were before the court last, the .wurt laid down the limit within which a court of equity could inter. fere by an order with a party conducting a criminal procedure, and bebeyond which there can be no interference, as follows: "It is when the parties sought to be enjoined have, as plaintiffs, submitted themselves to the court by a bill of equity as to the matter or right affected by or hivolved in the criminal procedure." 19 FED. REP. 67.1. Leave was given, ibidem, to amend the bill so as to show this fact. The only question which need be considered now is whether the plaintiffs have brought themselves, by their amendment, within this limit. The original criminal jurisdiction in chancery has long been obsolete. The learning relating to the question is confined to a few cases, viz.: Mayor of York v. Pilkington, 2 Atk. 302; Montague v. DUdman, 2 Ves. 396; Atty. Gen. v. Cleaver, 18 Ves. Jr. 211; and Sault v. B1'owne, L. R. 10 Ch. App. Cas. 64. In the first of these cases, which was a case where plaintiffs claimed the sole right of fishing in the Ouse, and they had filed a bill, in which they submitted that matter to the chancellor, and afterwards proceeded by indictrpent for an interference with the same right.. Lord HARDWICKE illustrated his view of the authority of the chancellor by the case of a bill to quiet possession, by a party plaintiff, who should afterwards prefer an indictment for a forcible entryand says this court would stop the indictment. In Atty. Gen. v. Cleave?', 18 Ves. Jr. 220, Lord ELDON defines the authority of the preceding case as follows:
"Lord HARDWICKE held that he would deal with the subject with reference to what was civilly in question between the plaintiff and defendant, though, also, the subject of criminal proseclltion; but I do not find that he thought himself justified in that with regard to other persons who had not themselves resorted to him."
In Sault v. Browne Lord CAIRNS says: "I should be unwilling to express any doubt that there may be cases in which criminal proceedings instituted by a party to a suit, in this court, are so identical with the civil proceedings as to induce this court to order that the same person shall not at the same time pur8ue his remedy in this court, and pursue another remedy which ranges itself under the head of criminal j urisdiction. "
The authority of the chancery conrt is therefore limited to a plaintiff in the equity proceedings, and comes from the general authority ')£ courts of chancery to control the conduct of parties who seek its aid in furtherance oftheir civil rights. Story, Eq. Jur. § 893. The case which is recognized as establishing the rule (Lord HARDWICKE'S) makes it apply only to a case where a plaintiff in equity attempts to resort to a criminal procedure to enforce against the defendant the same rights which he is pursuin rr against the same defendant in the equity cause. It is the double Llarassing, first, by the equity snit,
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and, second, by the criminal procedure, that the equity court interrupts. This is the ground upon which the queen's counsel, who argued in support of the injunction, placed the application in Sault v. Browne, snpra. But the pursuer and pursued must be identical in the c8.ses,-i. e., the defendant in the bill and in the indictment must be the same person,-and the person preferring the bill and the criminal charge must also be the same. As to parties and controversy the inquiry is analogous to that in regard to the plea of lis pendens. The amendment is, in effect, that the defendants have submitted as plaintiffs the matter or right involved in the criminal proceedings to this court in four enumerated cases. An examination of these records shows that the defendants here have appeared in some of the causes as original plaintiffs, and in one cause as intervenors, where they should be classed as plaintiffs, for the purpose of determining this matter, and have submitted to the court the matter or right here involved as between themselves and other parties, and that they have never submitted to this court such matter or right as between themselves and the plaintiffs in these bills who were not parties to those other causes, nor does it appear that they were privies to the parties there. It was not, therefore, their right which was submitted in these equity causes, but a similar right. I think, therefore, by the authority of the original case, and of those cases which have followed it, that the plaintiffs have not, by the amendment, placed themselves in the category of those who can ask an order to operate upon the defendants, and that, therefore, the restraining order must be vacated, and the demurrer to the amended bill sustained. c
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FEDERAL REPORTER. ATTRIIJL and others.
OGLESBY
CASSAR!> v. SAME. GILLESPIE v. SAME. HELI,MAN V.
SAME.
CHISM v. SAME. FEE v. SAME. SEARS V.
SAME. June 5,1884.}
Circuit Oourt,8. D. New York. 1.
PRACTIOE-REs ADJUDICATA-AcTION BY STOCKHOLDER.
'fo a bill filed by a stockholder of a corporation to rescind a sale of his stock, which he was induced to make by the fraudulent practices of the defendant, the defendant pleaded a former adjudication in his favor in an action at law between the parties, in which the complainant sought to recover damages of the defendant for tl:\e fraud .. Held that, although the case made by the bill as to the details of the transaction and the matters of evidence of fraud dif· fered from the case tried in the former suit, the gravamen of the case was the same in each, and the judgment in the former suit was res adjUdicata. SAME-WHAT ISSUE IS CONCLUDED BY.
2.
The matter in issue or point in controversy, which is concluded by a former judgment, is that ultimate fact, or state of facts, upon which the verdict was based. SAME-WRIT OF ERROR-AFFIRMANCE OF JUDGMENT.
3.
On a writ of error taken from the judgment in the former suit the judgment was affirmed. Held, that the effect of the judgment was not impaired because the appellate court, in affirming the judgment, did not, in the opinion delivered, consider the question whether the conduct of the defendant was fraudulent or not.
In Equity. Miller, Peckham cf; Dixon, for complainants. Roscoe Conkling and S. G. Wheeler, Jr., for defendant. WALLACE, J. 1. The questions raised by the demurrers to the amended and supplemental bills were considered and decided adversely to the defendants on a former occasion, when the demurrers to the original bills in several of these cases were heard by this court. As the present bills, except in the suits of Oglesby and Cassard, are the same as the former respecting all material matters, and as the additional facts now alleged in the bills of Oglesby and Cassard are only important for the purpose of anticipating and assailing matters of defense to the bills, it would not be profitable, and is deemed unnecessary, to reconsider what was then deliberately determined. 2. The pleas filed in the cases of Oglesby and of Cassard set up a good defeLlse to the bills. One of the issues litigated in the former