Legal Opinion

Mishkin v. Young

Colorado Court of Appeals

Decided October 2, 2008No. 07CA1316PublishedCited by 8 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

Opinion by

Judge CONNELLY.

This seven-year-old dispute originating over a $1,625 security deposit has journeyed through every level of our state court system at least once. Mare P. Mishkin (landlord) most recently filed an independent action against Dean Young (tenant), seeking equitable relief from mistakes allegedly made by courts in the security deposit lawsuit. Because such independent actions upset the finality of prior judgments, they may be brought only in exeeptionally narrow cireum-stances. We hold landlord did not properly bring this action within those narrow cireum-stances, and…

2Cases cited24 opinions

  1. Hess v. Port Authority Trans-Hudson CorporationSupreme Court of the United States · 1994
  2. United States v. BeggerlySupreme Court of the United States · 1998
  3. National Surety Co. v. State BankCourt of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit · 1903
  4. Shapiro & Meinhold v. ZartmanSupreme Court of Colorado · 1992
  5. People v. YascavageSupreme Court of Colorado · 2004

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3Cited by8 opinions

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  5. Stresscon Corp. v. Travelers Property Casualty Co. of AmericaColorado Court of Appeals · 2013

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