Durrance v. Gulf Life Insurance

This was a suit at law on certain promissory notes as to which a mortgage had been foreclosed against the same defendants and a deficiency decree against them afterward applied for and denied in the chancery proceeding. When sued in the present action, the plaintiffs in error, as defendants below, filed certain pleas of res ad judicata. 'In these pleas they relied for a complete defense to the present cause of action sued on, upon the effect of the adjudication made in the chancery decree of the Circuit Court of Highlands County, in which decree the Circuit Court, in finally closing the…