CITY OF PITTSBURGH, a Municipal Corporation v. UNITED STATES of America, Appellant

FREEDMAN, Circuit Judge.

The district court granted summary judgment against the United States as indemnitor in favor of the City of Pittsburgh, against whom a pedestrian had obtained a jury verdict in a tort action in the state court for the negligent maintenance of a sidewalk adjoining premises owned by the United States.

These circumstances at once present the critical problem whether a judgment obtained in a state court on a jury’s verdict in a suit against the municipality is conclusive in the municipality’s suit for indemnity from the property owner, where the property owner is the United…