264 So. 2d 879 | Fla. Dist. Ct. App. | 1972
Defendant seeks review of trial court’s entry of an adverse summary judgment and dismissal with prejudice of his amended counterclaim and third party complaint.
Plaintiff brought suit in New York demanding an accounting for three real estate transactions entered into in Dade County with defendant, her partner, in which plaintiff alleged that defendant failed to properly account for and disburse monies collected. A stipulation was made in open court whereby defendant agreed to pay plaintiff $60,000 by a specified date
Under the full faith and credit clause of the United States Constitution the doctrine of res judicata may be applied to the valid and partial final judgment rendered in New York. Maclay v. Maclay, 147 Fla. 77, 2 So.2d 361 (1941). Parties may not litigate matters actually litigated and determined in earlier actions. Field v. Field, Fla.1956, 91 So.2d 640; Gordon v. Gordon, Fla.1952, 59 So.2d 40, cert. den. 344 U.S. 878, 73 S.Ct. 165, 97 L.Ed. 680; Bardwell v. Langston, Fla.App.1971, 244 So.2d 742; Meyer v. Forty-Five Twenty-Five, Fla.App. 1967, 198 So.2d 650. The summary judgment of the lower court and its dismissal with prejudice of defendant’s amended counterclaim and third party complaint is affirmed.
This affirmance, however, relates only to those matters decided in the partial judgment of the New York court and does not prejudice issues and rights currently pending before the New York court.
The final order of the Circuit Court is modified to reflect the above and as modified it is affirmed.