Legal Opinion
Pounders v. ENSERCH E & C, INC.
Court of Appeals of Arizona
Decided April 17, 2012No. 1 CA-CV 11-0282PublishedCited by 1 opinion
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
TIMMER, Judge.
¶ 1 The appeal in this wrongful death case requires us to employ choice-of-law principles to determine whether the substantive law of Arizona or New Mexico applies. If we agree with the trial court that New Mexico law applies, we then must decide whether the court properly applied New Mexico’s statute of repose to find that suit is barred against Appellees. For the reasons that follow, we affirm.
BACKGROUND
¶ 2 From 1969 to 1974 and again from 1977 to 1983, Arizona Public Service (“APS”) employed Dudley W. Pounders to work as a welder at the Four Corners Power Plant (the…
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- Vicki Pounders v. Enserch E&C IncArizona Supreme Court · 2013