Shackelford v. Central Bank of Mississippi

Birdsong, Judge.

The appellee obtained a judgment against the appellant in the state of Mississippi, and instituted suit in Georgia to domesticate the Mississippi judgment. From the grant of summary judgment in favor of appellee, Shackelford appeals. Held:

1. Jurisdictional issues adjudicated in the foreign judgment may not now be raised. Gordon v. Gordon, 237 Ga. 171 (1) (227 SE2d 53). Similarly, "[t]he doctrine of res judicata makes a prior judgment conclusive between the parties and their privies as to all matters put in issue or that might have been put in issue. [Cits.]” Colodny v.…