HUGHES v. HUGHES

21939.

218 Ga. 684 (1963)

130 S.E.2d 226

HUGHES v. HUGHES.

Supreme Court of Georgia.

Decided March 7, 1963.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

George P. Dillard, for plaintiff in error.

E. H. Stanford, contra.


GRICE, Justice.

We determine here whether the decree in a divorce action is res judicata in a subsequent suit between the same parties for recovery of property.

This question is involved in a proceeding brought by Mrs. Vera Pitt Hughes against her former husband Max Ninon Hughes in the Superior Court of DeKalb County, Georgia, seeking to impress a trust upon certain property held by him. She claims that during their marriage he took from her a specified sum...

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