Code of Alabama
Ala. Code § 6-6-298 (2026)
Two Judgments in Defendant’s Favor Bar Further Action.
✓ official Alabama Legislature (ALISON) text, current July 2026
Two judgments in favor of the defendant in an action of ejectment or in an action in the nature of an action of ejectment between the same parties in which the same title is put in issue are a bar to any action for the recovery of the land, or any part thereof, between the same parties or their privies founded on the same title.
(Code 1852, §2219; Code 1867, §2620; Code 1876, §2969; Code 1886, §2714; Code 1896, §1554; Code 1907, §3858; Code 1923, §7474; Code 1940, T. 7, §959.)
Notes of Decisions
Cited in 3
cases, 1978–2017 · leading case: Davis v. Davis, 240 So. 3d 621 (Ala. Civ. App. 2017).
Davis v. Davis, 240 So. 3d 621 (Ala. Civ. App. 2017). “" Accordingly, even if we were to consider the judgment in the original ejectment action to have been decided on the merits, that one judgment would not bar the present ejectment actions pursuant to § 6-6-298. We note that, in MacMillan Bloedell , the supreme court held that §…”
Stanton v. Gov't Nat'l Mortg. Ass'n, 380 So. 2d 292 (Ala. 1980). “(Code 1975, § 6-6-298). Suit was filed in this case in June, 1973, and judgment rendered December 4, 1978.”
Mid-State Homes, Inc. v. Brown, 355 So. 2d 332 (Ala. 1978). “1975, § 6-6-298). We reverse and remand. An earlier opinion, Mid-State Homes, Inc.”
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