Moore v. Williams

delivered theeopinion of the Court:

This was ejectment, by appellants, against appellees. The court below held that appellants were estopped from prosecuting the suit to judgment in their behalf, by a decree in chancery in that court, between the same parties and in regard to the same subject matter, the court of chancery having jurisdiction of the subject matter, and that ruling presents the only question that it is necessary to decide upon this record.

The doctrine is of familiar application in this court, that a prior adjudication of the same subject matters between the same parties,…