Robert E. Hanson v. Hunt Oil Company, a Foreign Corporation

ROSS, Circuit Judge.

In this diversity action Robert E. Hanson appeals from a final judgment dismissing his complaint upon motion of the defendant Hunt Oil Company (Hunt). Prior to this dismissal the trial court struck portions of the complaint and rejected Hanson’s offer of proof on these portions on the grounds of res judicata. When Hanson offered no proof as to the remaining allegations in the complaint the court dismissed it.

The trial court held that the offer of proof and the portion struck from the complaint in the present case represent a cause of action essentially the same as another…