64 P. 65 | Kan. | 1901
The opinion of the court was delivered by
This suit involves the application of the doctrine of res judicata. The answer and cross-petition of Kingman & Company in the case of the Chicago Stove Works against it and the First National Bank and others set up the Sharp mortgage and the assign
It is asserted by counsel for plaintiff in error that Kingman & Company are now estopped and precluded, by the record in the Chicago Stove Works suit, from bringing the second action to foreclose the Sharp mortgage. The.contention is that Kingman & Company, in its answer and cross-petition to the suit of the Chicago Stove Works, might have obtained all the relief it is now asking — that is, a foreclosure of its mortgage— and that, having stopped short of this, and being content to rest its rights on the decree adjudging its mortgage lien to be paramount to that of the First National Bank, it cannot now maintain this suit to foreclose.
We do not differ with counsel on the proposition of law stated by them — that matters which might have been passed on and litigated in the former suit are considered, when applying the doctrine of res judicata, as having been adjudged. We think, however, that the rule is not applicable to the facts in this controversy. We must presume that the trial court granted to Kingman & Company, under its answer and cross-petition in the former case, the full measure of relief to which it was entitled under the pleadings. To give force to this presumption, we base it on the ground that the Sharp note was not due at the time the cross-petition was filed. While a copy of the note set up
The judgment of the court below will be affirmed.