Legal Opinion
Linder v. Missoula County
Montana Supreme Court
Decided January 14, 1992No. 91-146PublishedCited by 21 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Harrison
This is an appeal from an Order of the Fourth Judicial District Court, Missoula County, Montana wherein summary judgment was granted to the State in a negligence claim surrounding an outbreak of tuberculosis in Missoula County. Missoula County urges reversal, since a previous action arising from the same outbreak incident resulted in an opposite ruling at the district court level. We affirm in part and reverse in part.
We address the following dispositive issues:
“I. Whether the State’s summary judgment motion on the contribution and actionable duty issues is barred by the doctrine of…
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