Court Opinion

ID: 9619293
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-22 05:25:36.598666+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T09:12:03.293382
License: Public Domain

HOWE, Justice
(Dissenting):
I dissent. I think the conclusion is inescapable that Mountain Bell effectively elected to make a demand on the bond in the prior action brought by the Atkin firm for damages. On March 5, 1981, Mountain Bell filed a Notice of Claim on Bond with the district court in the prior action. The Notice bore the caption of the prior action. In the notice, Mountain Bell stated that “[pjroof of the specific amount of damages will be filed in the future ...” and warned the Atkin firm and the court not to allow the bond to be withdrawn. If Mountain Bell did not intend to elect to pursue the bond in that action, then it would seem that the filing was wholly unnecessary. At least,-it should have contained some reference to an independent action that would be instituted later. Mountain Bell made its filing in the prior action months before the trial, allowing it ample time to pursue the bond in that action.