Texas Highway Department v. Jarrell

How courts have described this case

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• noting that res judicata is “a plea in bar” that if sustained would require take-nothing judgment against claimant
• comparing pleas in abatement to pleas in jurisdiction and in bar, only last of which allows entry of judgment on merits
• comparing pleas in abatement to pleas in jurisdiction and in bar, only last of which allows entry of judgment on merits
• stating “a plea to the jurisdiction, if sustained, would require a dismissal; . . . and a plea in bar, if sustained, would require a judgment that the claimant take nothing”
• “As applied to a pending claim for relief or cause of action, a plea to the jurisdiction, if sustained, would require a dismissal․”
• “[A] plea in bar, if sustained, would require a judgment that the claimant take nothing.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).