Court Opinion

ID: 9552448
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-07 19:10:46.598812+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T15:26:28.859238
License: Public Domain

BAKES, Justice,
concurring specially:
I agree with the majority opinion that the district court erred in entering both the May 27, 1975, and the October 28, 1975, orders, and that the interpleader action in which Neibaurs and Van Tassells had asserted their cross-claims against each other was erroneously dismissed upon the incorrect assumption that the matter had been fully compromised. The Court further holds that “whatever rights the Neibaurs and Van Tassells have in the property subject to foreclosure will be determined in that [the foreclosure action filed by the Hebdons which the Court reinstates] suit.” Ante at 283. Thus, it seems that the Neibaurs and Van Tassells will be able to assert in that foreclosure action not only *606their interest in the property, but also their claims against one another under the so-called compromise and settlement which prompted the trial court to dismiss their claims with prejudice. However, since it is fairly obvious from the record that there may never have been a meeting of the minds on that compromise and settlement agreement, the parties will of necessity have to go back to the underlying claims behind their various positions in order to explain what that compromise and settlement was all about. Therefore, as a practical matter, they are right back where they started, and this whole matter is going to have to be relitigated in the Hebdon foreclosure action.