Appellate Court of Illinois· 2/6/1990

Herriford v. Boyles

Citations

550 N.E.2d 654
193 Ill. App. 3d 947
140 Ill. Dec. 769
1990 Ill. App. LEXIS 153

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“A valid arbitration award has all the force of an adjudication, and precludes the parties from again litigating the same matters.”
by choosing to proceed to arbitration and in that forum having their damages properly and conclusively determined, plaintiffs are collaterally estopped from relitigating that issue and any other issue necessarily determined in that proceeding
court found that plaintiffs were collaterally estopped from relitigating the amount of their damages in the common law action against the defendants because the issue of damages had been decided in the arbitration proceedings
court found that plaintiffs were collaterally estopped from relitigating the amount of their damages in the common law action against the defendants because the issue of damages had been decided in the arbitration proceedings.

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Judges: Stouder, Barry

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