Todaro v. Gardner

McDonough, chief justice.

Appeal from a judgment allowing a set off against a judgment secured in Arizona. Appellants, who were plaintiffs below, maintain that the matters alleged in the counterclaim were adjudicated in the Arizona Courts and decided in their favor and hence cannot be interposed as a defense in the present action on the judgment, and that the trial court erred in that it failed to give full faith and credit to the determination of a sister state.

The appellants received $5,000 from the respondent during negotiations for the sale of a motel in Arizona. No written contract was…