Thompson v. Karastan Rug Mills

How courts have described this case

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• recognizing that a manufacturer - supplier of goods stands in \vertical privity\ in the \chain of sale\ to the retailer and purchaser
• stating that collateral estoppel does not require an identity of parties, “as long as the party against whom the defense is invoked is the same”
• for collateral estoppel to apply, four conditions must be met, the first being that the issue or issue of fact previously determined in a prior action are the same

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).