Picard v. Mutual Life Ins. Co. of New York

I do not subscribe to that part of the majority opinion maintaining the defendant’s plea of res judicata for as was very aptly pointed out in the case of State v. American Sugar Refining Company, 108 La. 603, 32 So. 965, “The law of res judicata is stated with great simplicity and precision by article 2286, Civ.Code, as follows: ‘The authority of the thing adjudged takes place only with respect to what was the object of the judgment. The thing demanded must be the same; the demand must be founded on the same cause of action; the demand must be between the same parties, and formed by them…