Opinion

Bahler v. Fletcher

  • 257 Or. 1
  • 474 P.2d 329
  • 1970 Ore. LEXIS 243
Court
Oregon Supreme Court
Filed
Sep 11, 1970
Status
Published
Author
McAllister
On the bench
Perry, McAllister, Sloan, O'Connell, Denecke, Holman, Tongue
Cited by
80 cases
Authority
More cited than 7.1%

describing policy underpinnings of doctrine of “col- lateral estoppel,” now known as “issue preclusion”

How later courts described this case

  • describing policy underpinnings of doctrine of “col- lateral estoppel,” now known as “issue preclusion”
  • “[I]t appears to be well settled that the husband and wife are not necessarily in privity”

Written by the judges who cited it.

The opinion

McAllister, J.,

dissenting.

In my opinion Wolff v. Du Puis, 233 Or 317 , 378 P2d 707 (1963) was correctly decided and should control this ease. I dissent.

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