Morse Chain Co. v. Formsprag Co.

This is an appeal, on leave granted, from a Court of Appeals denial of leave to appeal from a circuit court order denying plaintiff’s motion for a pretrial ruling of admissibility in this cause of a duly certified copy of a certain judgment against this plaintiff entered in the supreme court of Erie county, New York, and that upon admission it would he conclusive evidence, binding on defendant here, of the issues litigated therein and to be litigated herein, including the amount of damages.

Defendant, a Michigan corporation, was a manufacturer, in this State, of clutches. It entered into a…