Court Opinion

ID: 9588304
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-21 23:32:40.654122+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T18:00:58.069391
License: Public Domain

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.