Legal Opinion
Fisch v. Montana Rail Link, Inc.
Montana Supreme Court
Decided April 10, 2003No. 01-277PublishedCited by 6 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Rice
¶1 Montana Rail Link, Inc. (MRL), appeals the summary judgment dismissal of Gallatin County (County) as a third-party defendant in a negligence action involving the collision of a train with a truck driven by Charles Fisch at a railroad crossing on a county road. We affirm.
FACTUAL AND PROCEDURAL BACKGROUND
¶2 Shortly after 11:00 a.m. on July 9,1998, a westbound MRL train collided with a fully loaded dump truck at the North Alaska Road Crossing just outside the city limits and east of Belgrade, Montana. Moments before the accident, the driver of the truck, Charles Fisch, pulled out from the…
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