State Ex Rel. v. Board of Comrs. of Adams County

A review of the action of the trial court in overruling the appellants’ demurrer to the appellees’ plea in abatement will dispose of this appeal.

By their complaint the appellants sought to mandate the appellees as county officers to perform certain acts alleged to be required of them by statute. Appellees answered with a plea in abatement, alleging that the cause of action charged in the complaint had previously been adjudicated against the appellants by the final judgment of a court of competent jurisdiction duly entered in an action between the same parties and involving the same issues.…