NATIONAL CITY BANK v. CERESOTA MILL LTD.

No. C6-91-659.

488 N.W.2d 248 (1992)

NATIONAL CITY BANK OF MINNEAPOLIS, Respondent, v. CERESOTA MILL LIMITED PARTNERSHIP, et al., Respondents, The City of Minneapolis, et al., Respondents, Howard B. Bergerud, et al., Respondents, Gregory J. Hayes, et al., Respondents, Robert C. Whitney, et al., Defendants, The Estate of Thomas M. Whitney, et al., Respondents, Muriel Jayne Hayes, Respondent. and Donna J. WHITNEY, individually and in her capacity as Co-Trustee of and on behalf of the Whitney Revocable Trust, the Whitney Family Trust and the Whitney Tax Deferral Trust, and in her capacity as Executrix of and on behalf of the Estate of Thomas Whitney, Third Party Plaintiff, Respondent, v. David W. MITCHELL, Third Party Defendant, Respondent, McCutchen, Doyle, Brown & Enersen, Third Party Defendant, Respondent, Hopkins & Carley, Third Party Defendant, Petitioner, Appellant, Roger D. Gordon, et al., Third Party Defendants, Respondents.

Supreme Court of Minnesota.

July 31, 1992.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

David L. Hasmall, Fred L. Morrison, J. Michael Schwartz, John M. Baker, Popham, Haik, Schnobrich & Kaufman, Minneapolis, for appellant.

William S. Rosen, Rosen, Meyer & Simons, St. Paul, and Herbert Stern, David S. Stone, Stern & Greenberg, Roseland, N.J., for Donna J. Whitney, et al.

Larry M. Wertheim, Mary G. Dobbins, Holmes & Graven, Minneapolis, for National City Bank of Minneapolis.

William Kampf, Ann Ladd, Fredrikson & Byron, P.A., Minneapolis, and Paul H. Ravich, Robins, Kaplan, Miller & Ciresi, Minneapolis, and Steven D. DeRuyter, Leonard, Street & Deinard, Minneapolis, for Ceresota Mill Ltd. Partnership, et al.

Jerome F. Fitzgerald, Asst. City Atty., Minneapolis, for City of Minneapolis and MCDA.

Martin G. Weinstein, Richard G. Wilson, Maslon, Edelman, Borman & Brand, Minneapolis, and Charles R. Breyer, Coblentz, Cahen, McCabe & Breyer, San Francisco, Cal., for David W. Mitchell.

Gregory J. Collins, Mulligan & Bjornes, Minneapolis, for Muriel Jayne Hayes.

Kay N. Hunt, Phillip A. Cole, Lommen, Nelson, Cole & Stageberg, P.A., Minneapolis, for Roger D. Gordon, et al.

Craig W. Gagnon, Michael J. Bleck, Oppenheimer, Wolff & Donnelly, Minneapolis, for McCutchen, Doyle, Brown & Enersen.

Louis W. Brenner, Minneapolis, for Howard B. Bergerud, et al.

Joel A. Seltz, Minneapolis, for Gregory J. Hayes, et al.

Heard, considered and decided by the court en banc.


TOMLJANOVICH, Justice.

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