Schoeman v. New York Life Insurance

How courts have described this case

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• affirming res judicata dismissal where plaintiff “knew or should have known” of facts giving rise to claim plaintiff failed to raise in prior litigation
• \A liberal and broad construction of Rule 13(a) is appropriate to avoid a multiplicity of suits.\
• “If a matter has been litigated or there has been an opportunity to litigate on the matter in a former action, the party-plaintiff should not be permitted to relitigate that issue.”
• claim for life insurance proceeds precluded later claim for negligent issuance of same policy; “[i]f a matter has been litigated or there has been an opportunity to litigate on the matter in a former action, the party-plaintiff should not be permitted to relitigate that issue”
• Restatement (Second) of Judgments §§ 13, 22

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).