Pomfret Farms Ltd. Partnership v. Pomfret Associates

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• noting that res judicata doctrine relieves parties of the “vexation of multiple lawsuits, conserves judicial resources, and, by preventing inconsistent decisions, encourages reliance on adjudication” (quotation omitted)
• holding misrepresentation. claims were barred by compulsory counterclaim rule when they were not asserted in mortgage foreclosure action because mortgagee also sought in personam judgment on the underlying promissory note
• applying a compulsory counterclaim rule identical to Rule 13(a) and finding that the plaintiffs misrepresentation claim was compulsory because it arose from the same property transaction that gave rise to the opposing party’s claim for recovery on a mortgage note
• for purposes of the compulsory counterclaim rule, individual partners of partnership were in privity with partnership
• “[A] 10 claim has a logical relationship to the original claim if it arises out of the same aggregate of 11 operative facts as the original claim . . . .” (citation omitted) (alteration in original)

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