CLUKEY v. SWEENEY

No. 29221.

963 A.2d 711 (2009)

112 Conn.App. 534

Ronald CLUKEY v. William J. SWEENEY et al.

Appellate Court of Connecticut.

Decided February 10, 2009.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

William F. Gallagher, with whom, on the brief, was Hugh D. Hughes, for the appellants (named defendant et al.).

John-Henry M. Steele, Middlefield, for the appellee (plaintiff).

FLYNN, C.J., and DiPENTIMA and PETERS, Js.


PETERS, J.

The doctrine of collateral estoppel, or issue preclusion, "prohibits the relitigation of an issue when that issue was actually litigated and necessarily determined in a prior action between the same parties or those in privity with them upon a different claim." (Internal quotation marks omitted.) Powell v. Infinity Ins. Co., 282 Conn. 594, 600, 922 A.2d 1073 (2007). Relying on...

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