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· 4/11/2007

In re Doskey

Citations

  • 953 So. 2d 812
  • 2007 La. LEXIS 889
  • 2007 WL 1108899

How courts have described this case

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  • agreeing that a \third party complaint must allege facts sufficient to establish at least four separate elements in order to maintain a common law action for indemnity\
  • reviewing alternate grounds for affirmance that were raised in trial court even though trial court failed to rule on claims
  • reviewing alternative grounds for affirmance that were raised in trial court even though trial court failed to rule on claims
  • when trial court does not rule on merits of alternate grounds, we retain discretion to consider those grounds on appeal
  • appellate court ‘‘may affirm the court’s judgment on a dispositive alternat[ive] ground for which there is support in the trial court record’’
  • common-law indemnity appropriate where (1) third-party defendant was negligent; (2) third-party defendant’s negligence, rather than defendants’ negligence, was the direct, immediate cause of the accident and injuries; (3

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