MANSFIELD, Circuit Judge:
This appeal raises the important question of whether a party who has had issues of fact determined against it after a full and fair opportunity to litigate them in a non-jury trial of an action against it may, in a different suit against it by another person, obtain a jury trial of the same issues of fact arising out of the same transaction. We hold that it is collaterally estopped from doing so.
In November 1974 the present class...
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