Corinne Anne Staigg Neagle v. William Brooks and Maud Ella Brooks

KERR, District Judge.

In this diversity action, the plaintiff has appealed from orders of the United States District Court for the District of Kansas granting defendants’ motion for summary judgment on the ground that under the doctrine of res judicata plaintiff is precluded from renewing her litigation in the federal court. Appellant contends that the state court proceedings are not res judicata for the reason that the state court’s order sustaining appellees’ motion to dismiss was not a valid final adjudication of her case on the merits.

On January 8, 1964, Corinne Anne Staigg Neagle filed…