Legal Opinion
Oakly Enterprises, LLC v. NPI, LLC
Alaska Supreme Court
Decided August 28, 2015No. 7042 S-15159PublishedCited by 9 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
MAASSEN, Justice.
I. INTRODUCTION
This case arises from a dispute over whether the owner of a wood chipper may be held jointly and severally liable, along with two property owners, for damages caused to their property by the chipper's leak of diesel fuel. The chipper's owner had leased it to another person, who abandoned it. The property owners claim they were only severally liable, if at all, for a portion of the damages and that the chipper's owner was liable for the rest. A jury found that the chipper did not contaminate one of the two properties, but as for the other the jury found…
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