Timbrook v. Metzeler Automotive Profile Systems Iowa, Inc.

RULING ON DEFENDANT’S MOTION TO JOIN A NECESSARY PARTY UNDER RULE 19(a)

WALTERS, Chief United States Magistrate Judge.

The above resisted motion is before the Court (# 18). The Court has carefully considered the motion papers and now rules as follows.

Plaintiffs decedent, Kenneth C. Timbrook, a railroad switchman employed by Burlington Northern and Santa Fe Railway Company (the railroad), was killed in the course of his duties while working on defendant Met-zeler’s property in Keokuk, Iowa. The incident resulted from what plaintiff claims to have been the railroad’s “principal negligence”.

On…