Schnell v. Mendoza

JUDE G. GRAVOIS, Judge.

| ^Plaintiff, Diane R. Schnell, appeals a judgment that granted an exception of res judicata filed by defendants, Hilman Mendoza and Jane Mendoza. Plaintiff contends that the trial court erred in granting the exception, arguing that res judicata bars her second suit against these defendants only if the prior suit involved the same parties, the same cause, and the same object of demand. She asserts that her second suit involves a different cause of action relative to a bond for deed contract between the parties than the cause of action she asserted in her first suit. For…