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p. 317TIMPANO v. DAVID STEVENSON BREWING CO. (Supreme Court, Appellate Division, Second Department. December 5, 1907.) Argued before HIRSCHBERG, P. J., and WOODWARD, MILLER, JENKS, and HOOKER, JJ.
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Judgment—Matters Concluded.Where plaintiff, in a prior action against Mm by defendant, set up as a counterclaim the same claim on which his suit was brought, and the matter was there litigated to a conclusion, he was bound by the decree therein entered.
[Ed. Note.—For cases in point, see Cent. Dig. vol. 30, Judgment, § 1251.]
Appeal from Municipal Court of Brooklyn.
Action by Michael Timpano against the David Stevenson Brewing Company. Judgment for plaintiff, and defendant appeals. Reversed, and a new trial granted.
Thomas J. Earrell, for appellant.
Charles J. Ryan, for respondent.
The claim upon which the judgment appealed from was' rendered was clearly litigated between the parties in a prior action for the foreclosure of a mortgage in the' Supreme Court, in
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which suit the plaintiff herein was defendant. In his answer in that case, he set up as a counterclaim the same claim upon which the present suit was brought, and the matter was there litigated to a conclusion. The plaintiff herein is bound by that decree.
It follows that the judgment must be reversed, and a new trial, granted; costs to abide the event.
WOODWARD, JENKS, HOOKER, and MILLER, JJ., concur.. HIRSCHBERG, P. J., not voting.