Potter v. Thieman

CRISWELL, Judge.

These consolidated appeals concern two rulings entered by the district court in the same wrongful death action. In one appeal, the plaintiffs, James B. Potter and Mescal Potter, parents of Anthony Potter, now deceased, appeal from the trial court’s purported dismissal of an alleged claim of Michelle Ridenour, who may assert that she is the decedent’s widow by virtue of a common law marriage to him. In the other appeal, defendants, Willard Thieman, Vicki Corley, and Lynn Kaatz, d/b/a Daddio’s Lounge, appeal from the dismissal of their third-party complaint against the City of…