Imperial Crown Marketing Corp. v. Wright

HOUSTON, Justice.

This present action was commenced in the Circuit Court of Jefferson County, Alabama, by Imperial Crown Marketing Corporation to domesticate a judgment that it had recovered against Rusty Wright, on October 19, 1985, in the Nineteenth Judicial Circuit of Illinois (that earlier proceeding will be referred to as the “Illinois action”).1 Wright’s answer in this action included the affirmative defenses of collateral estoppel and res judicata predicated upon a subsequent judgment, specifically one dated January 20, 1987, in Wright’s favor against Imperial Crown in a proceeding in…