{"data":{"id":"us-ga/o.c.g.a.-9-12-42","jurisdiction":"us-ga","citation":"O.C.G.A. § 9-12-42","heading":"Judgment no bar absent decision on merits.","body":"Where the merits were not and could not have been in question, a former recovery on purely technical grounds shall not be a bar to a subsequent action brought so as to avoid the objection fatal to the first. For a former judgment to be a bar to subsequent action, the merits of the case must have been adjudicated.","path":["TITLE 9 Civil Practice","CHAPTER 12 Verdict and Judgment","Article 2 Effect of Judgments"],"source_url":"https://archive.org/download/gov.ga.ocga.2018/release86.2022.11/gov.ga.ocga.title.09.odt","current_through":"Release 86 (2022-11)","vintage":"Public.Resource.Org bulk O.C.G.A., Release 86 (2022-11), retrieved 2026-09-17","retrieved_at":"2026-09-17T19:34:57Z","sha256":"90946483402d1f177a3d0ff5f25dd669fee4a6ca87c43886fd7f2cd23c4c6b58","source_id":"us-ga","stale":false,"prev":"us-ga/o.c.g.a.-9-12-41","next":"us-ga/o.c.g.a.-9-12-43"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}