Rucker v. Steelman

The questions in this case arise on the ruling denying the appellant a new trial

The court permitted the appellee to give in evidence the record of the proceedings in a former action between the parties, and of this ruling complaint is made, but clearly without just reason. A record of a former suit between the same parties for the same property is competent evidence, and *223in this instance the parties were the same and the property in controversy the same in both actions. In the former action the controversy included more property than that here the subject of controversy, but this does not…