Protest 711546-G of Bullocks, Inc.

How courts have described this case

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• in action involving personal injury to child, interests of parents for loss of services and medical expenses is derivative and not the same as child’s claim for damages
• modified in part on other grounds in Grava v. Parkman Twp., 73 Ohio St.3d 379, 382, 653 N.E.2d 226, 229 (1995
• “If the plaintiff in the prior action is successful, . . . that . . . plaintiff cannot recover again on the same cause of action”
• “[E]ven where the cause of action is different in a subsequent suit, a judgment in a prior suit may nevertheless affect the outcome of the second suit.”
• both facets require “identity of parties or their privies”
• collateral estoppel does not bar a minor’s action, by parent as next friend, for personal injuries following parents’ unsuccessful action on same claim when child and parents were not in privity, child was not a real party to former suit and child had no control over that litigation

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).