Court Opinion

ID: 9719971
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-26 08:11:22.122172+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T18:24:11.748417
License: Public Domain

Mr. JUSTICE HALLETT specially concurring: I concur in the foregoing judgment and in most of the reasoning but would add one further ground. In my opinion, an “agreed” or “stipulated” order or judgment does not require the acquiescing court judicially to decide anything and the result is therefore not res judicata in the true sense. As was said in Granzow v. Village of Lyons, Ill. (7thCir. 1937), 89 F.2d 83, 86 (in reversing a judgment based on res judicata): «o # s The order was the consequence of consent and not of judgment by the court. Consequently it could not be treated as res judicata. Lawrence Manufacturing Co. v. Janesville Cotton Mills, 138 U.S. 552, 11 S.Ct. 402, 34 L.Ed. 1005; San Francisco v. Le Roy, 138 U.S. 656, 11 S.Ct. 364, 34 L.Ed. 1096.”