Jones v. Schacter

1. In a suit by a landlord against a tenant to recover rent, a plea of res judicata filed by the tenant, alleging that in a former suit between the parties, wherein the tenant was plaintiff and the landlord was defendant, the rights of the parties arising under the contract sued on had been adjudicated, either under the petition there filed by the former plaintiff or under a set-off there filed by the former defendant, is not supported by the evidence, where the pleadings in the former trial, introduced in evidence, show that the former plaintiff’s petition and the former defendant’s set-off…