Murray v. Flannery CA2/3
In this procedurally tangled case, defendant, cross-complainant and appellant Patrick Flannery (Flannery) contends the trial court erred in entering an amended judgment awarding his former nonmarital partner, Andrea Murray (Murray), $1,225,000 of the settlement proceeds from a lawsuit arising out of the destruction by fire of a ranch jointly owned by Flannery and Murray. We conclude that Murray’s entitlement to the settlement funds has already been adjudicated in a separate action, in which a final judgment has been entered and affirmed by the Court of Appeal, and thus Flannery’s claim is barred by res judicata. We therefore affirm the judgment.
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