Wyatt v. RD Werner Co., Inc.

SANDSTROM, Justice.

Shirley Wyatt appeals from an order denying her motion to intervene with a claim for loss of consortium in a personal injury action brought by her former spouse, Donald Wyatt, against Ardell Adams, Shirley’s father, and R.D. Werner Co., Inc., a ladder manufacturer. We hold the order denying intervention is a final appealable order. We further hold Shirley was entitled as a matter of right to intervene in Donald’s action and the court erred in denying the motion. We reverse and remand.

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Donald Wyatt was seriously injured in December 1987, when he fell from a ladder owned by…