Ruegger v. Indianapolis & St. Louis Railroad

Citations

• 103 Ill. 449
• 1882 Ill. LEXIS 199

Syllabus

<p>1. Former adjudication—when a bar to relief, or relief on new ground. Where the same matters involved in a suit in equity were involved in a prior suit, though in the United States Circuit Court, and the two suits were between the same parties, the decision in the prior suit will be conclusive on the trial of the second suit brought in the State court.</p> <p>2. Where a suit is brought in the United States Circuit Court to enjoin the collection of a certain tax for certain years, which relief is denied on a final hearing on the merits, and the bill dismissed, this will be a bar to a bill filed by the same complainant against the collectors of the same counties, seeking the same identical relief, although other reasons and grounds may be alleged in the second suit for granting the same. A prior adjudication between the-same parties is conclusive upon them, not only as to the matters actually determined, but as to every other thing within the knowledge of the parties which might have been set up as a ground for relief or defence.</p>