HARTFORD FIRE INS. CO. v. WESTINGHOUSE

No. C0-89-1032.

450 N.W.2d 183 (1990)

HARTFORD FIRE INSURANCE COMPANY, Appellant, v. WESTINGHOUSE ELECTRIC CORPORATION, Midwest Rubber Service & Supply Co., Boston Industrial Products, Inc., a division of DANA Corporation, Brand Midland Corporation, formerly known as Brand Distributors, Inc., and B.F. Goodrich Co., Respondents.

Court of Appeals of Minnesota.

Review Denied March 22, 1990.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

William P. Studer, Cheryl L. Appledorn, Oppenheimer Wolff & Donnelly, St. Paul, and Moris Davidovitz, and Donald B. MacDougall, Fisher & Hurst, San Francisco, Cal., for Hartford Fire Ins. Co., appellant.

John F. Angell, Lasley, Gaughan, Stich & Angell, Minneapolis, and Kevin P. Lucas, and James C. McLean, Manion, McDonough & Lucas, Pittsburgh, Pa., for Westinghouse Elec. Corp., respondent.

Marcus M. Baukol, Baukol, Nyberg & Thompson, St. Louis Park, for Midwest Rubber Service & Supply Co., respondent.

Gerald M. Linnihan, Jardine, Logan & O'Brien, St. Paul, for Boston Indus. Products, Inc., respondent.

Eric J. Magnuson and Keith J. Kerfeld, Rider, Bennett, Egan & Arundel, Minneapolis, for Brand Midland Corp., respondent.

Kent Harbison, Fredrikson & Byron, Minneapolis, for B.F. Goodrich Co., respondent.

Heard, considered and decided by SCHUMACHER, P.J., and CRIPPEN and FLEMING, JJ.


OPINION

CRIPPEN, Judge.

Applying the statute of limitations on real property improvements, the trial court granted summary judgment for all respondents in a suit to recover damages arising from a December 1983 generator explosion. We affirm as to causes of action connected with alleged design defects of the generator, installed in 1968, but reverse respecting causes connected with generator seal repairs in 1983.

FACTS

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