Hill v. Edwards

This appeal presents for determination whether or not the court below committed error in its ruling to the effect that the judgment in the case of Carter v. Edwards constitutes an estoppel and bar to the plaintiff’s right to maintain this action against Johnny Avery Edwards.

“(W)here the initial action is instituted by the passenger in one vehicle against the driver of the other vehicle, in which the passenger’s driver is joined for contribution, adjudication that the passenger’s driver was not guilty of negligence constituting a proximate cause of the accident, is res judicata in a subsequent…