Robert Cooper Grier

“ It is a well-settled principle of the common law 'that in personal actions concerning debts, goods, and effects (by way of distinction from other actions) , a recovery in one action is a bar to another. ”

“ Hence, as the title of the freehold was never formally and directly is issue by the pleadings, but only a trespass committed by John Doe on Richard Roe, in forcibly expelling him from a term of years, no verdict between these parties for the supposed trespass could be pleaded in bar to another action of trespass by Thomas Troublesome on Timothy Peaceable. ”