Northwestern Pacific Indemnity Co. v. Junction City Water Control District

Defendant has filed a petition for rehearing, to which plaintiff has, pursuant to our request, filed a response. The thrust of the petition for rehearing is that even if our decision that there was an indemnity agreement between the parties was correct, plaintiff was not entitled to a directed verdict, as we held in our former opinion. NW Pac. Indem. v. Junction City Water Dist., 295 Or 553, 558, 668 P2d 1206, 1209 (1983).

A short review of the progress of this case is appropriate. Plaintiff appealed to the Court of Appeals from a judgment for defendant on a jury verdict. Plaintiff stated five…