Patrick v. Hardin

The chancellor sustained pleas of former suit pending and res judicata and dismissed appellant’s bill at her costs. She appeals and assigns error to the action of the chancellor.

The history of this litigation is that the appellant filed a suit in Hardin County, Tennessee, seeking to enforce a vendor’s lien on the real property located wholly in Hardin County, and more particularly described in the bill.

The bill alleged in substance that the appellant and James L. Hardin, deceased, owned, as tenants in common, a one-fourth undivided interest in said land, all of which is located in Hardin…