Essex Insurance v. Moose's Saloon, Inc.

¶ 1 This is an appeal by Essex Insurance Company (“Essex”) from two orders and the final judgment of the District Court for the Eleventh Judicial District, Flathead County. We reverse.

¶2 The dispositive issue on appeal is whether the District Court abused its discretion in granting the M. R. Civ. P. 60(b)(6) motion filed by Moose’s Saloon (“Moose’s”) and Clark Vogt (“Vogt”). We therefore do not address the other two issues raised by Essex, which pertain to rulings by the District Court after it granted the Rule 60(b)(6) motion.

FACTUAL AND PROCEDURAL BACKGROUND

¶3 On June 17, 1994, an…