110 S.W.2d 145 | Tex. App. | 1937
This appeal is from a judgment of the Seventy-Third district court of Bexar county, sustaining a general demurrer to plaintiff's petition and dismissing her suit. The appeal was to the San Antonio Court of Civil Appeals, and is before us on transfer by the Supreme Court.
This case appears to be an aftermath of much litigation growing out of the same transaction. The first suit was filed October 8, 1924, by D. K. Furnish against Mary A. Pridgen, Oscar F. Pridgen, Adolph Wagner, E. P. Butler, and Mrs. E. B. Butler (Mrs. Maude F. Butler), seeking judgment on a note for $36,294.51, given by the Pridgens to Wagner and by him transferred to Furnish, and foreclosure of a lien on certain property in San Antonio. A judgment of the trial court in favor of Furnish for the debt and foreclosure of the lien was affirmed by the San Antonio Court of Civil Appeals. Pridgen v. Furnish,
In the opinion reported in Butler v. Wagner (Tex.Civ.App.)
"Apparently the theory is, as disclosed by the appellant in her bill of review, that her attorney had connived with attorneys for appellee in the former suit, which resulted in the entry of the judgment sought to be set aside; and further fraudulent representations were charged against the appellee in the exchange of real property, which was determined by this court in the case of Mary A. Pridgen et al. v. Furnish et al.,
"A review of the opinions heretofore cited will disclose a sufficient statement of the facts necessary for a determination of the cause here. We have read the record in all of these appeals, and apparently the only new matter alleged by the plaintiffs below is the charge that a conspiracy was entered into by and between their attorney and the attorneys for appellee in the trial of the cause which is reported in [Pridgen v. Wagner] (Tex.Civ.App.)
In all essential respects the alleged cause of action which the appellant attempted to assert in the present case is grounded upon the same transactions. There must be an end to litigation somewhere. It is to accomplish such purpose that the principle *147 of res adjudicata was evolved. That it barred the right of the plaintiff to prosecute this suit we have no doubt.
The judgment of the trial court is affirmed.