St. Stephen's Rectory v. United States

How courts have described this case

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• “[A] judgment that a declaration is bad in substance [i.e. as here for failure to join necessary parties] ... can never be pleaded as a bar to a good declaration for the same cause of action. The judgment is in no just sense a judgment upon the merits.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).