The moving defendants sought an order under Rule 6.01 to have the condominium corporation's complex breach of contract and professional negligence action tried together with ten simplified procedure tort actions brought by individual homeowners arising from the same roof leak incident.
The court dismissed the motion, finding that despite the common incident, the actions involved different causes of action, different levels of complexity, and were at vastly different stages of litigation.
The court held it would be unjust to delay the homeowners' advanced simplified proceedings to allow the corporation's more complex action to catch up.
