Parker v. Galbraith

Citations

• 46 Wash. 280
• 89 P. 712
• 1907 Wash. LEXIS 605

Syllabus

<p>Judgment — Res Judicata — Identity of Subject-Matter and of Parties. Where two promissory notes were given in payment for two horses, and the vendee brought suit against the payee to cancel the notes, for fraudulent representations, judgment allowing the plaintiff damages for such fraud, and applying the same upon one of the notes, which was cancelled thereby, is not a bar to an action upon the other note, brought by the assignee of the payee against the vendee and his wife; but the wife, as a member of the community receiving the benefit thereof, is bound by the former judgment, which is res judicata as to the defense of fraud.</p>