Court Opinion

ID: 9723133
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-26 10:03:21.085982+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T18:24:45.047507
License: Public Domain

VANDE WALLE, Justice,
concurring specially.
I concur in the majority opinion. I recognize that the majority opinion severely lim*301its the discretion to be exercised by the trial court in granting an order under Rule 54(b), N.D.R.Civ.P., as described in Union State Bank v. Woell, 357 N.W.2d 234 (N.D.1984). Heretofore I would have had to conclude that the trial court did not abuse its discretion in applying the factors we adopted in Woell to the facts in this case. Nevertheless I agree with the rationale of the Federal cases quoted in the majority opinion, and attorneys and trial judges should be aware that, notwithstanding what was said in Woell and the apparent flexibility of the Woell factors, Rule 54(b) orders should be reserved for the unusual case and will be scrutinized accordingly on appeal.