Corprew v. Corprew

Citations

• 84 Va. 599
• 5 S.E. 798
• 1888 Va. LEXIS 114

Syllabus

<p>1. Bes Judicata—Rule.—Judgment of court of competent jurisdiction upon a question directly involved in one suit, is conclusive, as to that question, in another suit between the same parties. Withers v. Sims, 80 Va., 658.</p> <p>2. Idem—Case at Bar.—Upon bill and answers in former suit, court of competent jurisdiction pronounced a decree adjudging the instrument set up in the pleadings to be the will of testator and construing it in accordance with the prayer of the bill, such decree is conclusive against same complainant seeking, in another suit against same parties, to have said will decreed not to he the testator’s will.</p>