Cooper v. Federal Land Bank of New Orleans

On the Merits.

The plaintiff, in a suit for an injunction to prevent the sale of his property under a writ, cannot withhold grounds which should have been set up in a prior suit for the same purpose, and then, after being defeated in the first suit, file another suit for the same purpose and re-urge the grounds set up in the first suit and add to them the additional grounds withheld in the first action. To permit such a practice would enable a debtor to file almost an endless chain-!of-■ suits to enjoin the sale *825of the seized property by alleging only one or more of several grounds and…