Yates Exploration, Inc. v. Valley Improvement Ass'n

How courts have described this case

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• stating that where there is no right to relief under substantive law, impleader is improper
• applying the principle that “[ujnsupported legal conclusions need not be accepted” in holding that a third-party complaint did not state an adequate basis for indemnity
• “To come within the scope of Rule 1-014(A), the third-party’s potential liability must in some way be dependent upon the outcome of the main claim against the defendant [and traditionally, derivative or secondary liability to the defendant ... is considered to be essential.” (citations omitted

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).