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MATTER OF COMMODORE HOTEL, ETC.

No. 81-736.

318 N.W.2d 244 (1982)

In the Matter of the COMMODORE HOTEL FIRE AND EXPLOSION CASE.

Supreme Court of Minnesota.

April 23, 1982.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Edward P. Starr, City Atty., and Frank E. Villaume, III, Deputy City Atty., St. Paul, for City of St. Paul.

Meagher, Geer, Markham, Anderson, Adamson, Flaskamp & Brennan and Clyde F. Anderson and Laura S. Underkuffler, Minneapolis, for NSP and Grudem Bros. Co.

Jardine, Logan & O'Brien, John R. O'Brien and Pierre N. Regnier, St. Paul, Austin D. Ditzler, Minneapolis, for Summit Court, Inc.

Scholle & Scholle, Mark Scholle and Thomas L. Johnson, Minneapolis, for Grudem Bros. Co.

Robins, Zelle, Larson & Kaplan and Mark J. Feinberg, Minneapolis, for Commercial Union Ins. Co.

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

WAHL, Justice.

Nineteen separate lawsuits seeking money damages for personal injury and property damage arising from the fire and explosion at the Commodore Hotel on February 15, 1978, were consolidated for trial as the Commodore Hotel Fire and Explosion Cases. By order of the trial court, the trial was bifurcated pursuant to Minn.R.Civ.P. 42.02, with the issues of liability and damages tried separately.

Judgment as to liability was entered on March...

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