Peterson v. Temple

The issue in this case is whether a plaintiff may maintain separate actions against the same defendant, one alleging injury to property and the other alleging injury to person, when both actions arise from the same wrongful act or omission. We hold that a plaintiff is barred, in that circumstance, from bringing separate actions for injury to property and to person. However, because that holding is contrary to two prior decisions of this court and a prior decision of the Court of Appeals, and because plaintiff reasonably relied on those decisions in pursuing separate actions here, we apply our…