§ 9-12-42. Judgment no bar absent decision on merits

GA Code § 9-12-42 (2018) (N/A)
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Where the merits were not and could not have been in question, a former recovery on purely technical grounds shall not be a bar to a subsequent action brought so as to avoid the objection fatal to the first. For a former judgment to be a bar to subsequent action, the merits of the case must have been adjudicated.