Case ID: neb_230/html/0698-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "Grant, J.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Board of Regents of the University of Nebraska, appellee, v. Lueder Construction Company, defendant and third-party plaintiff, appellant, Insurance Company of North America, appellee, and Wilscam Mullins Birge, Inc., et al., third-party defendants, appellees.
    433 N.W.2d 492
    Filed December 23, 1988.
    No. 86-257.
    Kathleen C. Smith, of Schmid, Mooney & Frederick, P.C., for appellant.
    Steven J. Riekes, of Richards, Riekes, Brown & Zabin, P.C., for appellee Wilscam Mullins Birge.
    Larry E. Welch, of Gross, Welch, Vinardi, Kaufmann&Day, P.C., for appellee Walter D. Rudeen and Associates, Inc.
    Boslaugh, Shanahan, and Grant, JJ., and Endacott and Quist,D. JJ.
   Grant, J.

On April 13,1984, the Board of Regents of the University of Nebraska filed this action against Lueder Construction Company (Lueder) and Insurance Company of North America, Lueder’s performance bond surety for the project, for damages premised on breaches of contract and warranty in the construction of the college of pharmacy building at the University of Nebraska Medical Center in Omaha. Lueder subsequently filed third-party petitions seeking contribution and indemnity from The Prescon Corporation and appellees Walter D. Rudeen and Associates, Inc. (Rudeen), and Wilscam Mullins Birge, Inc. (Wilscam).

On February 21,1986, the district court for Douglas County sustained the demurrers of Rudeen and Wilscam and ordered that Lueder’s third-party petitions against them be dismissed. Lueder timely appealed. This appeal is disposed of by the case of Board of Regents v. Lueder Constr. Co., ante p. 686, 433 N.W.2d 485 (1988). In light of our decision in that case, the issues presented in this appeal are moot, and the appeal is dismissed.

Appeal dismissed.