Burco, Inc. v. Paine

How courts have described this case

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

• ruling that two parties were in privity in part because they shared the same interest in the ownership of the proceeds of a bank account
• stating that privity includes, inter alia, “those who control an action although not formal parties to it [and] those whose interests are represented by a party to the action”
• holding an executor of will in New York was bound by a decision of a French court as res judicata where the executor had hired counsel and controlled in part the defense in the French court
• discussing privity under New York law for purposes of res judicata
• persons “whose interests are represented by a party to the action” may be precluded from relitigating questions necessarily decided in the original action
• “possibly coparties to a prior action” would be in privity

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).