Griffin v. Holiday Inns of America

496 S.W.2d 535 (1973)

Leon GRIFFIN, Petitioner,

v.

HOLIDAY INNS OF AMERICA et al., Respondents.

No. B-3444.

Supreme Court of Texas.

June 20, 1973.

Rehearing Denied July 18, 1973.

Hooper & Robinson, Karl H. Moeller and J. Malcolm Robinson, Austin, for petitioner.

Waitz, Bretz & Collins, Bruce Waitz, San Antonio, Wallace T. Barber, San Marcos, for respondents.

WALKER, Justice.

The principal question presented by this appeal is whether a take-nothing judgment in a suit on an express contract to furnish labor and material is res judicata of a second suit on the quantum meruit between the same parties and…