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65 Ark. 216

Meehan v. Watson

Supreme Court of Arkansas

Decided April 9, 1898

Supreme Court of Arkansas · decided 1898-04-09

Grant Green, Jr., Special Judge. STATEMENT BY THE COURT. Appellants, Meehan & McGowan, sued appellee in the circuit court upon a mutual running account for an alleged balance due of $714.49, embracing transactions between the parties of about three years duration, amounting in the aggregate to over $4,500; and about the same time Charley Meehan brought suit before a justice of the peace for an alleged balance due for rents of $.199.53, which cause was brought into the…

Cited by 2 later decisions — most recently June 1907

2 state decisions

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Decided 1898-04-09

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Hughes, J.,

¶1(after stating the facts.) Section 5707 of Sandels & Hill's Digest provides that “whenever several suits shall be pending in the same court by the same plaintiff against the same defendant, for causes of action which may be joined, or where several suits are pending in the same court by the same plaintiff against several defendants, which may be joined, the court in which the same may be prosecuted may, in its dis•cretion, order such suits to be consolidated into one action.”

¶2We do not think this case comes within the above statute, because the plaintiffs are not the same in the two eases, and the issues are not the same. We think the court erred in ordering the two cases consolidated.

¶3Eeversed and remanded, with directions to try these cases separately.

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