Legal Opinion
Norman McMunn v. Hertz Equipment Rental Corporation, Third-Party-Plaintiff-Appellee v. Eichleay Corporation, Third-Party-Defendant-Appellant
Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit
Decided May 20, 1986No. 85-2502PublishedCited by 37 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
POSNER, Circuit Judge.
This appeal requires us to consider a difficult issue of Indiana law pertaining to indemnity contracts — provided we satisfy ourselves that we have jurisdiction of the appeal.
McMunn was injured at a construction site while operating a “bobcat loader” that his employer, Eichleay, a construction contractor, had leased from Hertz and was using in the performance of a construction contract with Inland Steel. McMunn sued Hertz in state court, charging it with negligence in having failed to discover that the loader was defective. Hertz removed the case to federal court on the…
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