863 So. 2d 684 - Penton v. Healy’s Empirical Analysis

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1. “Accordingly, in giving the order taxing costs res judicata effect by finding that the cost of the photographs was a thing adjudged in the Seither case, the trial court relied on the improper order in the Seither case which was the result of the improper use of a summary proceeding to resolve the dispute between plaintiff and defendant in this case and issued contradictory rulings: denying the defendant's exception of res judicata and finding that a reasonable fee for the photographs was a thing adjudged. Moreover, the trial transcript indicates that the trial judge, in rendering judgment in the open account case, felt bound by the $1500.00 amount set by the district judge in the Seither rule to tax costs and, accordingly, to the extent that she felt constrained by the district judge's earlier ruling, she, in effect, failed to review the evidence before her and make an independent judgment.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Penton v. Healy