Duckett v. Goforth

How courts have described this case

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• holding that res judicata flows from the principle that public interest requires an end to litigation
• “The doctrine [of res judicata] flows from the principle that public interest requires an end to litigation and no one should be sued twice for the same cause of action.”
• party cannot raise defense of collateral estoppel for the first time on appeal

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).