Patterson v. Ridenour

This is an appeal in error from the judgment of the Circuit Court of Knox County sustaining a demurrer to a special replication upon the ground that it alleged no fact that in any manner voided the finality of the judgment of the court dismissing the former suit as to the defendant, Witherspoon Coal Company. The factual situation is that the plaintiff Patterson filed a former suit against two defendants upon the same cause of action involved in the present case. It was a personal injury suit caused by a collision on a highway and against Ridenour, and the defendant coal company was sought to…