Carte v. McKenzie

McDONALD, Chief Justice.

OPINION

This is an appeal by plaintiff from a judgment of the trial court sustaining defendants’ pleas of bar by prior judgment, and res judicata, and further decreeing plaintiff take nothing.

Plaintiff Carte instituted this case against defendants McKenzie for damages for conversion of certain personal property by defendants, his former landlords, with the alternative relief of possession of such personal property.

Defendants answered by pleas that in a former suit between the same parties in the same court, plaintiff alleged a conversion of the personal property here…