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SAMPSON CTY. EX REL. McPHERSON v. STEVENS

No. 884DC225.

372 S.E.2d 340 (1988)

91 N.C. App. 524

SAMPSON COUNTY, By and Through its CHILD SUPPORT ENFORCEMENT AGENCY, ex rel. Lucille McPHERSON, Plaintiff, v. Henry Earl STEVENS, Defendant.

Court of Appeals of North Carolina.

October 4, 1988.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Atty. Gen. Lacy H. Thornburg by Asst. Atty. Gen. T. Byron Smith, Raleigh, and Sampson County Child Support Enforcement Agency by Robert S. Griffith, II, Newton Grove, for plaintiff-appellant.

No brief for defendant-appellee.

WELLS, Judge.

Plaintiff assigns as error the trial court's dismissal of plaintiff's complaint on the grounds of res judicata. "`Res judicata deals with the effect of a former judgment in favor of a party upon a subsequent attempt by the other party to relitigate the same cause of action....'" State v. Lewis, 311 N.C. 727, 319 S.E.2d 145 (1984) (quoting King v. Grindstaff,

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