Gore v. Gore

The bill in this cause, involving a controversy as to the title of a tract of land in Overton County, was dismissed on the ground of res judicata, raised by demurrer. The averments of the bill, so far as they affect this defense, are that the complainant, Mary C. Gore, then Mary C. Max*621well, filed her bill in the Chancery Court of that county against the defendants, in which she claimed to be the owner in fee of this land, as purchaser at a sale made under a decree entered by that Court in the case to which the. widow and heirs and devisees of one Henry C. Maxwell, deceased, who was alleged to…