Williams v. Patterson

Appellant brought suit in ejectment demanding possession under a deed from Barham dated October 29, 1931. The declaration alleged that the “ right of possession of8 the same accrued on the 2nd day of April 1942.”

Plea of res judicata was interposed setting up the judgment in Williams v. Patterson, 198 Miss. 120, 21 So. (2d) 477. The parties and part of the land were involved in the former adjudication. Beplication to the plea asserts that the plaintiff “is suing upon an entirely different source of title, ’ ’ to-wit, the deed from Barham.

The former case was decided upon general demurrer which…