Indiana Farm Gas Production Co. v. Southern Indiana Gas & Electric Co.

The law of the case doctrine precludes a lower tribunal's consideration of an issue that has been resolved by an appellate court. Riggs v. Burell, 619 N.E.2d 562, 564 (Ind.1993); Closson Lumber Co., Inc. v. Wiseman, 507 N.E.2d 974, 977 (Ind.1987); Egbert v. Egbert, 235 Ind. 405, 415, 132 N.E.2d 910, 916 (1956). To invoke the law of the case doctrine, the issues decided in the appellate court's decision "must clearly appear to be the only possible construction of the opinion...." Egbert, 235 Ind. at 415, 132 N.E.2d at 916; see also, Riggs, 619 N.E.2d at 564; Closson Lumber, 507 N.E.2d at 977.

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