Fairmeadows Mobile Village, Inc. v. Shaw

In this article 78 proceeding appellants, as various officials of the Town of Newfane, have been ordered to issue a license to petitioner for a house-trailer camp on premises leased by it from third parties. Special Term in its opinion, *139among other things, decided that a prior action (Town of Newfane v. Fairmeadows Mobile Vil., 6 A D 2d 755) had conclusively established the rights of the parties and a finding made therein had “ become the fact of this case as a matter of law.”

The general principle is recognized that “ a fact, once decided in an earlier suit, is conclusively established…