Fernandes v. Rodriguez

Opinion

STOUGHTON, J.

The defendant Eyvind Rodriguez 1 appeals from the trial court’s judgment distributing the proceeds from a sale of real property he formerly held in joint tenancy with the plaintiff, Maria Fernandes. The defendant claims that the court used a legally insufficient method to distribute the proceeds of the sale. We conclude that the defendant, having fully argued this issue in a previous appeal to this court, is now precluded from raising the issue again.

This case initially arose over a dispute concerning the partition of real property, formerly owned in joint tenancy by the…