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71 Ga. 735

Parker v. Stambaugh

Supreme Court of Georgia

Decided September 11, 1883

Supreme Court of Georgia · decided 1883-09-11

Ejectment. Judgments. Bes adjudicata. Laws. Before Judge Estes. Lumpkin Superior Court. April Term, 1883. Parker brought complaint for land against Stambaugh; who Avas tenant in possession. Martin, the real owner, was made a party defendant by subsequent order. The defendant pleaded former recovery., and supported his plea with the record of an ejectment case which hadbeenbrought by John Doe, on the demise of the same plaintiff against the defendant for the same land.

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Decided 1883-09-11

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Jackson, Chief Justice.

¶1The single question made by this record is, whether an action of ejectment, brought in the statutory form, is barred1 *736by a judgment between the same substantial real parties on an action brought under the common law form. The lessor of the plaintiff in the former action is the plaintiff in the present suit; the defendant, who claimed title to the land before, is the defendant now, being in possession by a tenant in both cases, and the land sued for is the same as that recovered by the defendant before.

¶2Before the Code of 1863, the present suit would not have been barred by the former judgment, but by the 3275th section of that Code—section 3362 of the present Code—it is declared that “ a judgment in ejectment shall be conclusive as to the title between the parties thereto, unless the jury find for the plaintiff less than the fee.” This changed the law, and made the judgment between the same real parties to the title conclusive against those parties, with the single exception that, if the fee was not involved, but a less estate, the claimant of the fee could sue again, though he had been defeated on a trial of an estate less than a fee in the same land.'

¶3Section 3363 does not affect the question. The note on the side page refers to the acts of 1865-6 as the date of that enactment. This is a mistake; it was enacted in 1855-6, and in so far as it may militate against this construction of section 3362, it was repealed by the Code of 1863.

¶4The result is that the court below was right in holding that the plaintiff is barred by the first judgment.

¶5Judgment affirmed.

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