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Title: Northern Utilities v. Evansville
Author : Supreme Court of the United States
Release Date : January 10, 1991
Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
Pages : * pages
Size : 77 KB

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This appeal presents tort damage derived claims for contribution, indemnity, and subrogation. At issue is the public gas utilitys status as a joint tort-feasor, its extent of potential liability, and whether it made a settlement payment as a volunteer after a consumers house was blown up in a natural gas explosion. A parallel but separate issue examines whether an amendment to the complaint under the fictitious name rule substituting a named defendant for a "John Doe" defendant effectively relates back to the date of the original complaint after expiration of the statute of limitations.