The first question which this Court has to consider is, whether the proceedings in Chancery were properly admitted in evidence in the Court below.
It is not denied, as a general rule, that a fact which has been directly tried, and decided by a Court of competent jurisdiction, cannot be contested again between the same parties, in the same or any other Court...
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