In re Farmers' Co-op. Ass'n of Marion County

How courts have described this case

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

• noting the danger in applying coUateral estoppel in defective design cases, given the technical nature of the questions involved
• requiring “close scrutiny of the prior record and decision to identify with precision what issues have in fact been actually litigated and decided in the prior action”
• describing collateral estoppel as “the preclusion of the relitigation in a second action of an issue or issues that have been actually and necessarily litigated and determined in a prior action”
• describing collateral estoppel as “the preclusion of the relitigation in a second action of an issue or issues that have been actually and necessarily litigated and determined in a prior action”
• “Collateral estoppel precludes relitigation only when the identical issue was actually decided in the former case.”
• \It would not be prudent to raise a decision made by one jury in the context of one set of facts to the standard under which all subsequent cases involving separate underlying factual circumstances are judged\

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).