Jonathan Woodner Co. v. Adams

ROGERS, Associate Judge:

This is an appeal by a landlord from an adverse judgment in a nonpayment of rent action. The tenants counterclaimed alleging that housing code violations had voided their leases, and, alternatively, that the landlord had breached its implied warranty of habitability. After trial by jury a money judgment was entered for the tenants. On appeal, the landlord contends that the pretrial judge erred in failing to give collateral estoppel effect to certain facts it alleged were decided in prior litigation between the parties, and that the trial judge erred in refusing to…