College Park Land Co. v. Mayor of College Park

“A judgment of a court of competent jurisdiction is conclusive between tbe same parties and tbeir privies as to all matters put in issue, dr which under the rules of law might have been put in issue in the cause wherein the judgment was rendered.” Civil Code (1910), § 4336; Watkins v. Lawton, 69 Ga. 671 (1), 674. '“There is an estoppel by judgment only as to such matters as were necessarily or actually adjudicated in the former litigation. That is to say, there is an estoppel by judgment only as to such matters within the scope of the previous pleadings as necessarily had to be adjudicated in…