Westway Trading Corp. v. River Terminal Corp.

How courts have described this case

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• holding claim preclusion did not foreclose plaintiffs second action even though it arose out of the same lease agreement as that of a prior action
• holding claim preclusion did not foreclose plaintiff’s second action even though it arose out of the same lease agreement as that of a prior action
• [finding] evidence contained in a letter was admissible as circumstantial evidence of the state of mind of the declarant and is thus not hearsay
• failure to award actual damages will not bar exemplary damages when actual damage has in fact been shown
• “A plaintiff is not entitled to a second day in court simply by alleging a new ground of recovery for the same wrong.”
• “A cause of action is the same when the asserted invasion of rights is the same.”

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