As Amended
SEC. 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, Sec. 1316; 1880, Sec. 2213; 1892, Sec. 2417; 1906, Sec. 2746; Hemingway's 1917, Sec. 2245; 1930, Sec. 2094; 1942, Sec. 1828.