Diamond R. Fertilizer Co. v. Lake Packing

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• holding that when a judgment has been secured against the debtor and guarantor, the cause of action sued upon loses its identity, since it merges into the judgment
• holding, in related doctrine of merger of cause of action into judgment, that merger did not apply when parties were not the same
• “[A] cause of action upon which an adjudication is predi cated merges into the judgment and ... consequently, the cause of action’s independent existence perishes upon entry of the judgment.”

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