Snyder v. Marken

Citations

• 116 Wash. 270
• 199 P. 302
• 22 A.L.R. 1272
• 1921 Wash. LEXIS 825

Syllabus

<p>Judgment (195-1)—Conclusivehess—Copakties-—Effect. Where two persons wholly unrelated in business, each driving his own car, become involved in a collision between the two cars which caused injury to a third person, suing both of them for damages, a judgment against such third person is not conclusive in a subsequent suit by one car owner against the other to recover damages for the latter’s alleged negligence; the rule being that parties to a judgment are not bound by it in subsequent controversies between each other unless they were adversaries in the action wherein the judgment was entered.</p>