BEAVER v. PELETT

A8109-05780; CA A29965; SC S31475; A8109-05808; CA A29965; SC S31475.

705 P.2d 1149 (1985)

Lynn BEAVER, Personal Representative of the Estate of Larry Beaver, Deceased, Plaintiff, v. Walter D. PELETT, Doing Business As City Liquidators and James Richard Recobs, Jr., Respondents On Review, v. U-HAUL CO. OF OREGON AND MORELLI'S TEXACO AND DAVID NEHER, Doing Business As Beemer-Neher Insurance Agency, Third-Party Defendants. State of Oregon, by and through Its Department of Transportation, Highway Division, Petitioner On Review. Annadiana Beaver, Personal Representative of the Estate of Kevin Beaver, Deceased, Plaintiff, v. Walter D. PELETT, Doing Business As City Liquidators, and James Richard Recobs, Jr., Respondent On Review, v. U-Haul Co. of Oregon; Morelli's Texaco; Lynn Beaver, Personal Representative of the Estate of Larry Beaver, Deceased, and David Neher, Doing Business As Beemer-Neher Insurance Agency, Third-Party Defendants, State of Oregon, by and through Its Department of Transportation, Highway Division, Petitioner On Review.

Supreme Court of Oregon, In Banc.

Argued and Submitted April 2, 1985.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Michael D. Reynolds, Asst. Atty. Gen., Salem, argued the cause for petitioner on review. With him on the petition were Dave Frohnmayer, Atty. Gen., James E. Mountain, Jr., Sol. Gen., and Philip Schradle, Asst. Atty. Gen., Salem.

James H. Clarke, Portland, argued the cause for respondent on review.


LINDE, Justice.

The present case and two others decided today, Scovell v. TRK Trans., Inc., 299 Or. 679, 705 P.2d 1144 (1985) and Royal Insurance Companies v. State of Oregon Trans. Commission, Highway Div., 299 Or. 688, 705 P.2d 1144 (1985), involve the question whether the State of Oregon may be liable for contribution to a defendant in a tort case in...

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