Chappell v. F. A. D. Andrea Inc.

1. All rights of the parties to a litigation which have accrued under a contract must he litigated and adjudicated in one action. Evans v. Collier, 79 Ga. 319 (4 S. E. 266). All breaches of a contract occurring up to the commencement of an action for its breach must be included therein. Civil Code (1910), § 4389. There can not be subsequent actions for prior breaches, though they were not included in the first suit. Macon & Augusta R. Co. v. Garrard, 54 Ga. 327; Willingham v. Buckeye Cotton Oil Co., 13 Ga. App. 253 (79 S. E. 496). This principle is based upon the doctrine of former recovery,…