Venable v. Grage

The court’s ruling on the appellants’ first motion for summary judgment is not res judicata in their present appeal. On the appeal of the appellants’ summary judgments the judgments were reversed on jurisdictional grounds not involving the merits of the grant of the summary judgments. It is too well settled to require citation of authority that the rulings in a case on technical grounds, not involving the merits do not constitute the law of the case. Besides, the additional motions involve additional material and in our view the court did not abuse its discretion in considering and deciding…