Bordeaux v. Ingersoll-Rand Co.

How courts have described this case

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• defendant may not assert collateral estoppel defensively where workmen’s compensation claim decided in informal nonadversary setting
• “Res judicata [is] . . . designed to . . . curtail multiplicity of actions and harassment in the courts . . . .”
• court held subject matter was the same when both actions involved the cause of a nosebleed
• elements of res judicata not met by mere payment

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