SCHNEIDER NAT., INC. v. HOLLAND HITCH CO.

No. 91-44.

843 P.2d 561 (1992)

SCHNEIDER NATIONAL, INC., a Nevada Corporation; and Schneider National Carriers, Inc., a Nevada Corporation, Appellants (Defendants-Third-Party Plaintiffs), v. HOLLAND HITCH CO., a Michigan Corporation and Rissler & McMurry Co., a Wyoming Corporation, Appellees (Third-Party Defendants).

Supreme Court of Wyoming.

December 9, 1992.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Larry B. Kehl and George J. Argeris of Guy, Williams, White & Argeris, Cheyenne, for appellants.

Thomas G. Gorman, John J. Metzke and Steven K. Sharpe of Hirst & Applegate, Cheyenne, for appellee Holland Hitch Co.

Richard Barrett of Hathaway, Speight, Kunz, Trautwein & Barrett, Cheyenne, for appellee Rissler & McMurry Co.

George Santini of Graves, Santini & Villemez, Cheyenne, for the Wyoming Trial Lawyers Ass'n, amicus curiae.

Before MACY, C.J., and THOMAS, CARDINE, URBIGKIT and GOLDEN, JJ.


URBIGKIT, Justice.

In the legal aftermath of a deadly accident along southern Wyoming's Interstate 80, the United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit certified a number of questions of law to the Wyoming Supreme Court. Complex questions of the interrelationship between comparative negligence tort reform legislation, Wyo.Stat. § 1-1-109 (1988), and indemnity, an area of common law which the United States Court of Appeals considered nebulous, are before...

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