LANGE v. SCHWEITZER

No. 50496.

295 N.W.2d 387 (1980)

Ronald LANGE, a Minor, by Orville Lange, His Father and Natural Guardian, and Orville Lange, for Himself, Appellants, v. Charles SCHWEITZER, et al., Defendants, Dale H. Wolfe, d. b. a. Oelwein Specialty Co., Respondent, and Charles SCHWEITZER and Jerry Schweitzer, Dale H. Wolfe, d. b. a. Oelwein Specialty Co., Third Party Plaintiffs, v. Robert LANGE, Third Party Defendant, and Robert LANGE, Third Party Plaintiff, v. Delores DAVIS and Keith Davis, Third Party Defendants, and Ronald LANGE, a Minor, by Orville Lange, His Father and Natural Guardian, and Orville Lange, for Himself, Appellants, v. Virgil SUCKOW, Respondent.

Supreme Court of Minnesota.

July 3, 1980.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Peterson & Thompson and Duane M. Peterson, Winona, for appellants.

Austin, Roth, Sunde, McDonough & Tierney and George S. Roth, Minneapolis, for respondent.

Considered and decided by the court en banc without oral argument.


SHERAN, Chief Justice.

The issue raised by this appeal is whether the trial court properly determined that tortfeasors whose illegal sales of fireworks were determined to be negligence directly contributing to cause an injury sustained by the minor plaintiff were entitled to contribution among themselves if any one of them paid more of plaintiffs' damages than was attributable to his negligence.1 We affirm.

Ronald Lange, then 7...

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