Anita White v. Charles Tommy White

ON WRIT OF CERTIORARI

DICKINSON, Presiding Justice,

for the Court:

¶ 1. A chancellor held that res judicata prevented an action to set aside certain deed transfers because the issue had been raised in a conservatorship that had been closed. But because the judgment dismissing the conservatorship was not a final judgment on the merits, we reverse.

FACTS AND PROCEDURAL HISTORY

¶ 2. Charles William White (“Bill”) and his son Charles Thomas White (“Tommy”), were partners in a business that owned and operated convenience stores. In 2000, during the course of .the partnership, Bill married Anita White.…