PARKER, Justice.
Defendant's pleas in bar of res judicata (Sanderson v. Aetna Ins. Co., 218 N.C. 270, 10 S.E.2d 802), and of estoppel by judgment (Murchison Nat. Bank v. Evans, 191 N.C. 535, 132 S.E. 563) go to plaintiff's entire cause of action, and if sustained, will destroy it.
When a former judgment is set up as a bar or estoppel, the question is whether the former adjudication was on the merits of the action, and whether there is such an identity...
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