Bradford v. Richards

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• court held that a state district court action could not be barred by a probate court ruling under § 26(l)(c) when the probate court lacked jurisdiction to hear the latter action to begin with
• “Res judicata ... does not apply when the court which heard the first action did not have subject matter jurisdiction (or was limited by some other formal barrier) over the subject in the second action.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).