Case ID: nc_203/html/0112-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "Stacy, C. J.,", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

B. G. THOMPSON v. L. F. HERRING and MRS. ELMETTA HERRING.
    (Filed 29 June, 1932.)
    Abatement and Revival B b — Actions and parties held not the same and plea in abatement in second action was bad.
    An action by tbe maker to recover for tbe wrongful sale of certain cotton hypothecated as collateral for a note will not support a plea in abatement in an action instituted by tbe payee against tbe maker and guarantor to recover on tbe note and tbe letter of hypothecation, tbe parties not being the same and tbe causes of action being different.
    Appeal by defendants from Cowper, Special Judge, at March Term, 1932, of WayNe.
    Civil action to recover on promissory note and letter of hypothecation-.
    On 14 January, 1931, L. E. Herring instituted an action in Greene County against B. G. Thompson to recover damages for wrongful sale of certain cotton hypothecated as collateral to Herring’s note. Summons was served 16 January, and complaint filed 20 January.
    On 15 January, 1931, B. G. Thompson instituted this action in Wayne County against L. E. Herring and Mrs. Elmetta Herring to recover on promissory note and letter of hypothecation. Duly verified complaint was filed with issuance of summons and both served on defendants 17 J anuary.
    Plea in abatement is filed by tbe defendants on tbe ground that tbe same subject-matter is involved in tbe action instituted in Greene County by L. E. Herring against B. G. Thompson.
    
      From the overruling of the plea in abatement, the defendants appeal, assigning errors.
    
      Dickinson & Freeman for plaintiff.
    
    
      J. Faison Thomson, Walter G. Shepard and Hugh Brown Campbell for defendants.
    
   Stacy, C. J.,

after stating the case: The plea in abatement was properly overruled. Brown v. Polk, 201 N. C., 375, 160 S. E., 357. The parties are not the same and the causes of action are different in the two suits. A final judgment in the action brought in Greene County by L. E. -Herring against B. G. Thompson would not support a plea of res judicata in the present action instituted in Wayne County. This is one of the tests of identity. Bank v. Broadhurst, 197 N. C., 365, 148 S. E., 452.

Affirmed.