Smith v. Lockridge

How courts have described this case

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• affirming grant of summary judgment on grounds different from the trial court
• affirming grant of summary judgment where matters alleged in plaintiffs’ amended complaint were or could have been put at issue in the original complaint, which was already the subject of a prior and binding adjudication on the merits
• affirming grant of summary judgment where matters alleged in plaintiffs’ amended complaint were or could have been put at issue in the original complaint, which was already the subject of a prior and binding adjudication on the merits
• a “grant of summary judgment . . . constitutes an adjudication on the merits”
• summary judgment on original complaint seeking to set aside deed on ground of mental incompetence res judicata as to amended complaint seeking to set aside deed on grounds of undue influence, cloud on title, and mistake of fact
• summary judgment on original complaint seeking to set aside deed on ground of mental incompetence res judicata as to amended complaint seeking to set aside deed on grounds of undue influence, cloud on title, and mistake of fact.

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