DEPAUL v. BLEAKLEY


266 A.D.2d 495 (1999)

698 N.Y.S.2d 907

MICHAEL DEPAUL et al., Appellants, v. BLEAKLEY, PLATT & SCHMIDT, et al., Respondents.

Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York, Second Department.

Decided November 29, 1999.


Ordered that the judgment is affirmed, with costs.

The doctrine of collateral estoppel, or issue preclusion, bars the relitigation of issues that have been actually litigated and necessarily decided in a prior action (see, Kaufman v Lilly & Co., 65 N.Y.2d 449; Schwartz v Public Adm'r of County of Bronx, 24 N.Y.2d 65). To invoke the doctrine, the identical issue necessarily must...

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