Darling Stores Corporation v. Beatus

Duckworth, Justice.

1. A ruling on a general demurrer to a petition is a judgment on the merits of the case. Hadden v. Fuqua, 192 Ga. 668, 675 (16 S. E. 2d, 737), and cit.

2. “A judgment of a court of competent jurisdiction shall be conclusive between the same parties and their privies as to all matters put in issue, or which under the rules of law might have been put in issue in the cause wherein the judgment was rendered, until such judgment shall be reversed or set aside.” Code, § 110-501. Such judgment may be pleaded in bar of another suit for the same cause. § 110-504.

3. While, in the…