Long v. M. C. Peters Mill Co.

The law question presented in this case is whether a final judgment rejecting plaintiff’s demand, rendered by a court of competent jurisdiction in another state after trial on the issues joined by personal appearance and answer of the defendant, can be successfully pleaded as res judicata against a suit brought by the same plaintiff against the same defendant, for the same cause of action in a court of this state and pending and at issue at the time the judgment was rendered in the foreign state.

The facts constituting the basis for the plea are shown by the record, and are un-, disputed. The…