Pridgen v. . Lynch

This was an action by a farm tenant to recover damages from his landlord for wrongful interference with his crop, and also for malicious abuse of process in procuring his removal from the land. The defendant pleaded estoppel by judgment. The court below held the plaintiff estopped by the judgment rendered in a summary ejectment proceeding which had been instituted against him by the present defendant, and thereupon dismissed the action. The plaintiff appealed to this court, assigning error in the judgment predicated upon this ruling.

The facts relative to the former suit, as disclosed by the…