NORTHERN UTILITIES v. EVANSVILLE

No. 89-30.

822 P.2d 829 (1991)

NORTHERN UTILITIES DIVISION OF K N ENERGY, INC., a Kansas corporation, Appellant (Plaintiffs), v. The TOWN OF EVANSVILLE, Wyoming, a municipal corporation; Central Contractors Co., Inc., a Wyoming corporation; and John Does II and IV, Appellees (Defendants).

Supreme Court of Wyoming.

December 10, 1991.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Jeffrey C. Brinkerhoff and C. John Cotton, Brown & Drew, Casper, for appellant.

Cameron S. Walker and Judith A. Studer, of Schwartz, Bon, McCrary & Walker, and Robert Jerry Hand, Hand & Hand, P.C., Casper, for appellees.

Before CARDINE, C.J., THOMAS, URBIGKIT and GOLDEN, JJ., and ROONEY, J., Retired.


URBIGKIT, Chief Justice.

This appeal presents tort damage derived claims for contribution, indemnity, and subrogation. At issue is the public gas utility's status as a joint tort-feasor, its extent of potential liability, and whether it made a settlement payment as a volunteer after a consumer's house was blown up in a natural gas explosion. A parallel but separate issue examines whether an amendment to the complaint under the fictitious name rule substituting a named...

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