Case Name: Herman Glaser, Respondent, v. Lena T. Huette, Also Known as Lena Huett, Appellant, Impleaded with George I. Austin, Defendant
Court: New York Supreme Court, Appellate Division
Jurisdiction: New York
Decision Date: 1931-04-10
Citations: 232 A.D. 119
Docket Number: 
Parties: Herman Glaser, Respondent, v. Lena T. Huette, Also Known as Lena Huett, Appellant, Impleaded with George I. Austin, Defendant.
Judges: 
Reporter: Appellate Division Reports
Volume: 232
Pages: 119–121

Head Matter:
Herman Glaser, Respondent, v. Lena T. Huette, Also Known as Lena Huett, Appellant, Impleaded with George I. Austin, Defendant.
First Department,
April 10, 1931.
Paul D. Carrigg of counsel [James B. Henney with him on the brief, attorney], for the appellant.
John J. McGinty of counsel [Thomson & McGinty, attorneys], for the respondent.

Opinion:
McAvoy, J.
We think that since the parties now here were not adversaries in the former suits but codefendants wherein no duty existed to contest the issue of negligence as between them and no pleadings existed between them, the decisions there settled nothing as to the liability of the codefendants to each other. Therefore, the plea of res adjudícala was not available to this-defendant.
The order should be affirmed, with ten dollars costs and disbursements.
Finch, P. J., Merrell and Sherman, JJ., concur; Martin, J., dissents.