67 Miss. 183 | Miss. | 1889
delivered the opinion of the court.
The title of Mrs. Platt to the lot in dispute was not a matter of controversy in the suit in the United States circuit court. There was no issue as to that. Her title was only incidentally involved. She was a party to that suit only in her character of creditor of the Kleins, who had attached their effects, and not as owner of the lot here sued for. The many creditors of the Kleins, who had levied attachments, and were brought into the suit in equity in the United States court, had nothing in common except that each was
Mrs. Platt was not concluded as to her title to the lot by the decree and subsequent proceedings under it.
Nor did the purchaser under that decree acquire the right to hold the lot as against her, for the very decree under which the claim is made recognized the right of Mrs. Platt to appropriate to her attachment the debt secured by mortgage, by which debt alone the Kleins held or could hold possession of the lot, and awarded this debt to her.
Affirmed.