Radford v. Myers
Supreme Court of the United States
ERROR TO THE SUPREME COURT OP THE STATE OP MICHIGAN. The facts, which' involve the effect to be given by the state court to a former judgment in a suit between some of the parties rendered by the Circuit Court of the United States and the extent to which such judgment was res judicata of the matters in controversy, are stated in the opinion. The Federal decision is a bar to this litigation between the plaintiff in error and Col.
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ERROR TO THE SUPREME COURT OP THE STATE OP MICHIGAN. The facts, which' involve the effect to be given by the state court to a former judgment in a suit between some of the parties rendered by the Circuit Court of the United States and the extent to which such judgment was res judicata of the matters in controversy, are stated in the opinion. The Federal decision is a bar to this litigation between the plaintiff in error and Col. Myers as to the half of the judgment paid by Luzerne County into the United States court.
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Day
Elijah E. Myers brought this suit in the Circuit Court of Wayne County, State of Michigan, against George W. Radford, the plaintiff in error herein, for an accounting and for a decree for the balance due him from a judgment in a suit of the former in which the latter acted as one1 of his attorneys and received the amount of the judgment. Myers having died during the pendency of the action, it was revived in the name of his executrix, the defendant in error. The decree of the Circuit Court in favor of the defendant in error was affirmed by the Supreme Court of the State of Michigan (167…
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