Searle Bros. v. Searle

ELLETT, Chief Justice:

This case is before this Court on appeal from a final order of the trial court which dismissed the plaintiff’s amended complaint with prejudice and held that a prior judgment of the same court rendered in a divorce case wherein the defendants in this case were the parties there, was res judica-ta as to the appellants here.

In the prior case of Searle v. Searle (a divorce action), the court determined that a particular piece of property commonly known as the “Slaugh House” and recorded in the name of the defendant, Woodey B. Searle (who is the father of the appellants in…