Case Name: ZAUN v. NOBLES
Court: Court of Appeals of Georgia
Jurisdiction: Georgia
Decision Date: 1973-04-03
Citations: 128 Ga. App. 846
Docket Number: 47733
Parties: ZAUN v. NOBLES.
Judges: Quillian, J., concurs. Deen, J., concurs specially.
Reporter: Georgia Appeals Reports
Volume: 128
Pages: 846–846

Head Matter:
47733.
ZAUN v. NOBLES.
Submitted January 2, 1973
Decided April 3, 1973
Rehearing denied April 20, 1973
Edward Parrish, for appellant.
Young, Young & Ellerbee, O. Wayne Ellerbee, for appellee.

Opinion:
Bell, Chief Judge.
In this case a prior action between the same parties for the same claim was dismissed by the trial court for the plaintiffs failure to prosecute and to make discovery. In the instant case the defendant defended on the grounds that the dismissal of the prior suit was res judicata. Where, as here, it appears that a prior dismissal of the case was involuntary under CPA Section 41 Ob) (Code Ann. § 81A-141 (b)) and the trial court did not specify that the dismissal would not operate as an adjudication on the merits, the dismissed suit acts as res judicata on the subsequent suit. Old South Invest. Co. v. Aetna Ins. Co., 124 Ga. App. 697 (185 SE2d 584).
Judgment affirmed.
Quillian, J., concurs. Deen, J., concurs specially.