Goddard v. Security Title Insurance & Guarantee Co.

How courts have described this case

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• stating that a dismissal “with prejudice” evinces “[t]he intention of the court to make [the dismissal] on the merits”
• holding that a judgment given after sustaining a general demurrer 3 on grounds of substance, rather than on formal or technical defects, is a judgment on the merits 4 and has a res judicata effect
• “[A] final judgment, rendered upon the merits by a court having jurisdiction of the cause ... is a complete bar to a new suit between [the parties or their privies] on the same cause of action” (internal quotation marks and citations omitted)

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