GREAT PLAINS EQUIPMENT v. N.W. PIPELINE

Nos. 22762, 22973.

979 P.2d 627 (1999)

132 Idaho 754

GREAT PLAINS EQUIPMENT, INC., a foreign corporation; Michetti Pipe Stringing; Beard Oil Petroleum, Inc., a Foreign Corporation; Atlas Copco Rental, Inc., a foreign corporation; CRC-evans Pipeline International, Inc., a foreign corporation; Courtesy Ford Lincoln Mercury, Inc., an Idaho corporation; Cowboy Oil Co., an Idaho Corporation; Darby Enterprises, Inc., a foreign corporation; Hartford Insurance Company/Pickard Tate & Allen, a Connecticut Company; Rasmussen Equipment Company, a Utah corporation; Rocky Mountain Machinery Company, a foreign corporation;V-1 Oil Company, an Idaho corporation; Valley Office Systems, Inc., an Idaho corporation; Cate-Idaho Equipment Co., Inc., an Idaho corporation B.D. Holt & Company, Inc., d/b/a Holt Company of Texas, a foreign corporation, Plaintiffs-Respondents-Cross Appellants, v. NORTHWEST PIPELINE CORPORATION, a foreign corporation, Defendant-Appellant-Cross Respondent Kirkpatrick & O'Donnell Construction Equipment Co., Plaintiff-Appellant. v. Northwest Pipeline Corporation, a foreign corporation, Defendant-Respondent.

Supreme Court of Idaho, Boise, March 1998 Term.

Rehearing Denied May 20, 1999.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Hawley, Troxell, Ennis & Hawley, Boise and Pocatello, for appellant (case no. 22762) and respondent (case no. 22973), Northwest Pipeline Corporation. Ronald E. Bush and Thomas B. Chandler argued.

Racine, Olson, Nye, Cooper & Budge, Pocatello, for respondents in case no. 22762, Hartford Insurance/Pickard, Tate & Allen Company, Great Plains Equipment, Valley Office Systems, V-1 Oil Company, Cowboy Oil Company, Courtesy Ford, Darby Enterprises, Rasmussen Equipment, Atlas Copco, CRC Evans Pipeline International, Beard Oil, Rocky Mountain Machinery Company and Michetti Pipe Stringing, and appellant Kirkpatrick & O'Donnell in case no. 22973. Louis F. Racine, Jr., and John R. Goodell argued.

Craig W. Christensen, Ctd., Pocatello, argued for respondent B.D. Holt & Co., Inc.

Lowell N. Hawkes, Pocatello, argued for respondent Cate-Idaho Equipment Co. Inc.


WALTERS, Justice

NATURE OF THE CASE

This is an appeal from a judgment in favor of several claimants involved in the construction of a natural gas transmission pipeline. The construction contract was entered into by Northwest Pipeline Corporation (NWP) and Great Plains Pipeline Construction, Inc. (GPPC), and required GPPC to build a new pipeline, compressor pumping stations and related facilities between Pocatello and Burley, Idaho. Delays in the completion...

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