State Ex Rel. Deere & Co. v. District Court of the Fifth Judicial District

In this original proceeding in this Court, relators Deere & Company and Robert L. Campbell make application for a writ of supervisory control directed to the District Court, Fifth Judicial District, Beaverhead County, to grant Deere’s motion for summary judgment which the District Court had denied. We determine that the writ should issue.

The principal issue we decide here is that a joint tortfeasor who settles with the claimant before judgment on the claim is entered in a district court is not subject to claims for contribution or indemnity from the nonsettling joint tortfeasors. We further…