General Acceptance Corp. v. Holbrook

ETHRIDGE, Chief Justice:

This suit by appellant, General Acceptance Corporation (called GAC), is a nonresident attachment in chancery based on a Florida judgment. The trial court sustained the plea of abatement of Herman V. Hol-brook, defendant-appellee, and quashed the attachment, on the ground of a prior pending action already decided by that court and pending on appeal to the Supreme Court. We reverse, because we conclude that (a) the present suit, although based on the same judgment debt, involved some different and material facts, occurring in the period intervening between the two suits,…