NICHOLS, J.
1. "A decision rendered upon a state of facts appearing in the record, in which the legal effect of those facts is declared, is in all subsequent proceedings in the case, a final adjudication of the rights of the parties, from which the court cannot depart, not the parties relieve themselves, so long as the facts themselves appear without material qualification." Blackwell v. Southland Butane Gas Co.,
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