Slaughter v. Slaughter

Grice, Justice.

Two questions are presented. The first is this: Is a party who has once filed a suit for divorce on the ground of cruel treatment, which suit resulted in a verdict and decree adverse to the libellant, barred from thereafter filing a second petition on the same ground, but based on different acts of cruel treatment, all of which were committed by the opposite spouse since the date of the former trial? If the second suit can not be maintained, it is only because of the principle of res judicata or of estoppel by judgment. Our Code declares that a judgment of a court of competent…