2010 Mississippi Code
TITLE 11 - CIVIL PRACTICE AND PROCEDURE
Chapter 9 - Practice and Procedure in County Courts and Justice Courts.
11-9-137 - Judgment on merits res adjudicata.
§ 11-9-137. Judgment on merits res adjudicata.
When any suit brought before a justice of the peace shall be finally decided on its merits by the justice, it shall be a bar to a recovery for the same cause of action or setoff in any other suit.
Sources: Codes, Hutchinson's 1848, ch. 50, art. 2 (15); 1857, ch. 58, art. 19; 1871, § 1316; 1880, § 2213; 1892, § 2417; 1906, § 2746; Hemingway's 1917, § 2245; 1930, § 2094; 1942, § 1828.
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