Legal Opinion
Pennington v. Snow
Alaska Supreme Court
Decided July 2, 1970No. 1101PublishedCited by 39 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
BONEY, Chief Justice.
The appellant, Florence T. Pennington, and her husband, Earl Pennington, were *372injured on June 27, 1965, when their car was struck from the rear by a car driven by appellee Michael Anthony Rimmer. As a result of the mishap, two suits were filed in the courts of Alaska, and two trials were subsequently held. In this appeal we are called upon to decide whether the conclusions reached at the first of the two trials should have a binding effect upon the outcome of the second trial by virtue of res judicata or collateral estoppel.
On November 14, 1966, Earl Pennington…
2Cases cited13 opinions
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3Cited by39 opinions
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