COTTON v. FEDERAL LAND BANK OF COLUMBIA

No. 81-7526.

676 F.2d 1368 (1982)

Gloria Piper COTTON and Thomas E. Cotton, Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. FEDERAL LAND BANK OF COLUMBIA, etc., et al., Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Eleventh Circuit.

Rehearing and Rehearing Denied August 3, 1982.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Brian N. Smiley, Atlanta, Ga., for plaintiffs-appellants.

Jones Webb, Webb, Fowler & Tanner, J. L. Edmondson, Lawrenceville, Ga., for defendants-appellees.

Before TUTTLE, KRAVITCH and JOHNSON, Circuit Judges.


Rehearing and Rehearing En Banc Denied August 3, 1982.

TUTTLE, Circuit Judge:

This is an appeal from a summary judgment dismissing the complaint of the Cottons on the basis of res judicata, the trial court finding that a prior judgment of the Supreme Court of Georgia barred this present action.

A severely truncated statement of the background necessary to an understanding of the case follows: Mrs. Cotton signed two security deeds on her land in Gwinnett...

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