Land v. Moore

Jenkins, Presiding Justice.

The plea- of res judicata filed by-Moore in the second suit in ejectment raises but one deci sive question — was the title to the one-acre tract of land now sought to be recovered an issue in the previous suit in ejectment brought by the church against Slaughter, the defendant’s predecessor in title? The answer to this question will depend upon the pleadings-in the former suit against Slaughter. Was the particular one square acre now sued for, and alleged to contain the spring and baptismal pool, put in issue in the former suit, merely because of the erroneous…