Jeanette Carpenter v. Kenneth Thompson Builder, Inc.

¶ 21. I agree with the majority’s decision to affirm the trial court’s dismissal of the Second Amended Complaint in Carpenter I,9 but I disagree with its decision to affirm the dismissal of Carpenter ■ II, Because I find that Carpenter II is not barred by the doctrine of elaim-splitting or by res judicata, I respectfully dissent in part.

¶ 22. In his Order dismissing Carpenter II, the- trial judge found that Carpenter had “improperly filed this lawsuit contrary to the long-standing principal [sic] in Mississippi prohibiting a party from splitting a cause of action into the subject of two…