Green v. Thornton

Res Adjtjdicata—Parties and Privies Bound—Different Cause of Action.—The right, question, or fact definitely put in issue, and finally determined by a court of competent jurisdiction, cannot be contested in a subsequent action between the same parities or their privies, even if the second suit | is for a different cause of action. j

Id.—Action to Quiet Title—Former Adjudication—Ejectment Suit by Plaintiff’s Grantor.—In an action to quiet title, the principles adjudicated in a former action of ejectment brought by plaintiff’s grantor against the same defendant are binding upon the plaintiff, where it appears that substantially the same evidence, documentary and parol, was introduced and considered in both eases, and the plaintiff relied upon the same title which was adjudicated against his grantor in the action of ejectment.