Case Name: TIMPANO v. DAVID STEVENSON BREWING CO.
Court: New York Supreme Court, Appellate Division
Jurisdiction: New York
Decision Date: 1907-12-05
Citations: 107 N.Y.S. 317
Docket Number: 
Parties: TIMPANO v. DAVID STEVENSON BREWING CO.
Judges: 
Reporter: West's New York Supplement
Volume: 107
Pages: 317–318

Head Matter:
TIMPANO v. DAVID STEVENSON BREWING CO.
(Supreme Court, Appellate Division, Second Department.
December 5, 1907.)
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.
Argued before HIRSCHBERG, P. J., and WOODWARD, MILLER, JENKS, and HOOKER, JJ.
Thomas J. Earrell, for appellant.
Charles J. Ryan, for respondent.

Opinion:
PER CURIAM.
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 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.