Robinson v. Garcia

OPINION

Opinion by

Justice DORSEY.

This is an appeal of a summary judgment. By three issues, Edward Robinson, appellant, claims that the trial court erred in granting summary judgment in favor of the appellee, Ramon Garcia. The question is whether the settlement and resulting judgment in one lawsuit between the parties serves to bar the prosecution of another action through the doctrine of res judi-cata. We hold that because both actions arose from the same transaction, the judicial disposition of one bars the other. We affirm.

In 1988, Robinson and his wife, represented by Ramon Garcia, sued two…