Bobby G. Freeman on Behalf of Himself and the Wrongful Death Beneficiaries of Laura Freeman v. Lester Coggins Trucking, Inc., and Kenneth R. Deis

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• holding that privy requires “more than a showing of parallel interests, or, even, a use of the same attorney in both suits”
• where party seeks damages for himself in successive actions, individual and representative distinction collapses and collateral estoppel or res judicata applies
• judgment for defendant did not collaterally estop new plaintiff not party or privy of unsuccessful plaintiff in first suit
• each family member had separate and independent cause of action
• father who had previously lost suit based upon his own injuries not barred from relit-igating issues in later suit on behalf of mother and children, where the second suit was premised upon a child’s distinct injuries, and resulting death, from the same accident

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).