Carlin v. Fischer

How courts have described this case

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

• in suit for existing claims only, a party is not required to sue for all amounts owing when contract is divisible or breach partial
• second suit for fees from legal services rendered to estate barred
• “[a] judgment or decree in a suit for a part only of a single cause of action or entire claim permits res judicata to be successfully relied on if the remainder is sued on later”
• “[T]here is substantial unanimity that even if the contract is divisible, all that is due under it, or by reason of its breach, at the time suit is brought, must then be sued for, or the right to so much as is due but not sued for will be lost.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).