Eckert Realty Corp. v. Eckert

In this business dispute between a father and a son, the son appeals the trial court’s order awarding the father interest on two mortgage loans from the father to his son. The son claims that the father’s refusal to give him an estoppel letter, which was the subject of a prior successful suit against the father, should bar the father from collecting the interest due. The trial court held that the son was barred by res judicata from raising his defenses to the father’s collection of interest. We reverse the award of default interest on the first loan, because the father was not entitled to…