VAUGHN, Judge.
Defendant's plea of res judicata in this case should have been sustained only if there was an identity of parties, subject matter and issues with the earlier case. The minor plaintiff in this case was neither a party nor one in privity with a party to the other action and, of course, he had no control over the other lawsuit. That his father was a party in the other action is irrelevant to this minor's right to prosecute his separate cause of action...
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