Judgment reversed, on the law, without costs or disbursements, complaint reinstated, and case remitted to the Supreme Court, Kings County, for further proceedings consistent herewith.
It is well settled that the doctrine of collateral estoppel may be employed in a civil action to preclude the relitigation of issues necessarily determined in a prior criminal action. (S. T. Grand, Inc. v City of New York,
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