PHILIP B. CHAMBERS AND GLADYS CHAMBERS, APPELLANTS,
v.
COLONIAL PIPELINE COMPANY, APPELLEE

6th Cir. | 1969-03-25
No. 19038
408 F.2d 678 United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit (1969)

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Holding

The court held that the appeal was frivolous and without merit, affirming the district court's dismissal.


Facts & Procedural History

Appellants sought to set aside a state court eminent domain judgment in federal court. The district court dismissed the complaint, applying the doctri…

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Opinion of the Court
PER CURIAM.

PER CURIAM.

The appellants filed a complaint in the District Court seeking to set aside a State Court judgment entered in an eminent domain proceeding involving a pipeline right-of-way. The same parties are before this Court who were litigants in the State Court action. The protractéd State litigation began in 1962.

District Judge Frank W. Wilson granted defendant’s motion for summary judgment and dismissed the complaint, applying the doctrine of res judicata. In his opinion the District Judge said:

“* -x- * there must be an end to litigation. Without it [the doctrine of res judicata], litigation would be endless.

“This litigation, too, must at some point end. It appears from the undisputed record that this is such a point.” This case has been assigned to a panel

pursuant to Rule 3(e) of the Supplementary Rules of this Court. The appeal is dismissed as frivolous and completely without merit under Rule 9 of the Supplementary Rules of this Court. Moist v. Belk, 380 F. 2d 721 (6th Cir.), cert. denied, 389 U.S. 960, 88 S.Ct. 338, 19 L.Ed.2d 369.


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