J. R. Watkins Co. v. Kramer

This, is an appeal from an order and judgment sustaining a plea of res adjudicaba and dismissing plaintiff’s action as to certain defendants. The original action was instituted in 1957 by plaintiff, The J. R. Watkins Company, upon a written contract for the purchase price of goods, against defendants Lawrence J. and Helen G. Behm, as sureties for the purchaser, and the purchaser himself. In that action the district court sustained the motion of defendants Behm to dismiss, upon the ground the petition failed to show plaintiff, a foreign corporation, had the right to maintain such action in…