Berlin v. Boedecker

Defendants Brett A. Boedecker and Boedecker Resources, Inc., appeal from a judgment of the Eleventh Judicial District Court, Flathead County, granting respondents Martha Berlin and Donald Peterson damages for their losses in two overriding royalty purchases, and finding that Brett Boedecker breached the parties’ oral contract and his fiduciary duty to respondents, and piercing the corporate veil.

We affirm.

The parties raise the following issues:

1. Was respondents’ action barred by the doctrine of res judicata?

2. Was respondents’ action barred by the doctrine of collateral estoppel?

3. Was…