A.S. Johnson Co. v. Atlantic Masonry Co.

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• explaining that res judicata would apply if a “new action [i]s, fundamentally, an attack on the validity of [a] prior judgment”
• complaint to stay arbitration was not a “pleading” requiring counterclaims from the same transaction to be included
• complaint to stay arbitration was not a “pleading” requiring counterclaims from the same transaction to be included
• “One who is not a party to a contract nonetheless may sue to enforce its provisions if the contracting parties intend the third party to benefit directly thereunder.” (quoting Western Union Tel. Co. v. Massman Constr. Co., 402 A.2d 1275, 1277 (D.C. 1979)

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).