Brown v. Attala Drainage District No. 2

Appellant Brown filed his bill in the chancery court against appellee. The court below sustained the plea of res adjudicata as a bar or estoppel to the suit, the cause being heard separately on that plea, and from the decree dismissing the bill appeal is prosecuted here.

The substance of the bill was that Brown was the contractor with the officials of the drainage district for the construction of certain ditches and laterals, which contract he alleged had been fully performed by him.

He alleged that as the work progressed its engineer made estimates of the value of such work; that these…