Coker v. Jay Hambidge Art Foundation

Bell, Chief Judge.

At issue is the correctness of the grant of summary judgment to defendants on the ground that the present suit for breach of employment contract was barred by reason that it should have been asserted as a compulsory counterclaim in a prior suit between the defendant Art Foundation and the plaintiffs.

The facts are not in dispute. The earlier suit was one for injunctive relief in which defendant Foundation sought a temporary and permanent injunction against the plaintiffs (defendants there) restraining them from occupying a cottage on the Foundation premises. Immediately after…