Johnson v. Rogers

Lively, Judge :

Johnson Motor Company obtained a verdict and judgment against W. -W. Rogers in the circuit court for $236.18, from which this writ is prosecuted by defendant.

The case is in tort arising out of an automobile accident between cars owned by the respective parties on the streets of Princeton, West Virginia. Defendant pleaded the general issue to the declaration and interposed two pleas of res ad- judicata, setting up therein that a judgment had been rendered in a suit pending between the same parties over the idéntica] subject matter in the court ■ of I. C. Damewood, justice of the…