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1/2551 Thailand Supreme
Court Opinion 81 (No. 650) 2008
Mrs. Somjit Muangngam vs. Mrs. Urai Sungkagoon
Re: Land, Immovable Property
The plaintiff filed a lawsuit claiming that the defendant constructed a bamboo fence which encroached, by 7 square wah, on the northern part of the plaintiff’s Thailand property, based on a map. In comparing the map as stated to the map from the plaintiff’s prior legal proceeding, it can be seen that the disputed land referred to in this case was a part of the land under contention in the former legal proceeding. In the previous proceeding, the court determined that the defendant had not encroached on the property of the plaintiff by the construction, and hence the land on the defendant’s side was land under the beneficial possession of the defendant, and not land under the beneficial possession of the plaintiff. Therefore, the plaintiff’s legal action claiming that the section of the disputed land was a part of the land possessed by the plaintiff for a beneficial purpose was a re-examination of the same issues judged by the court already, and hence a duplicate legal action. |
