POLARIS INDUSTRIES v. PLASTICS, INC.

Nos. 48033, 48116 and 48127.

299 N.W.2d 414 (1980)

POLARIS INDUSTRIES, a Division of Textron, Inc., Appellant, v. PLASTICS, INC., defendant and third party plaintiff, Respondent, v. AETNA CASUALTY AND SURETY COMPANY, third party defendant, Respondent, and Fusion Rubbermaid Corporation, third party defendant, Appellant.

Supreme Court of Minnesota.

October 31, 1980.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Fredrikson, Byron, Colborn, Bisbee & Hansen, Jerome B. Pederson, and Michael A. Stern, Minneapolis, for Polaris Ind.

Lasley, Gaughan, Reid & Stich and John Angell, Richards, Montgomery, Cobb & Bassford, and Lynn Truesdell, III, Minneapolis, Jacobowski, Doffing, Hennessy, St. Paul, for Fusion Rubbermaid Corp.

Briggs & Morgan, David C. Forsberg, and Gerald L. Svoboda, St. Paul, for Plastics, Inc.

Faegre & Benson, Minneapolis, for Aetna Cas. and Sur. Co.

Heard, considered and decided by the court en banc.


OTIS, Justice.

These three appeals arise out of the same transactions and have been consolidated for consideration and decision. The plaintiff, Polaris Industries (Polaris), has recovered damages against Plastics, Inc. (Plastics) and seeks review of an order denying it compensation for prejudgment interest and for loss of profits.

Plastics has in turn joined Fusion Rubbermaid Corporation (Fusion) as a third-party defendant, seeking indemnity. Fusion appeals...

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