Liberty Mutual Insurance Company, a Foreign Corporation v. Fruehauf Corporation, a Michigan Corporation

PHILLIPS, Chief Judge.

Appellant, Liberty Mutual Insurance Company, asks this court to extend the indemnification doctrine of Ryan Steve-doring Co., Inc. v. Pan-Atlantic Steamship Corp., 350 U.S. 124, 76 S.Ct. 232, 100 L.Ed. 133 (1956), to a non-maritime tort. For reasons outlined herein, we refuse to do so and affirm the decision of the District Court.

In 1961, defendant Fruehauf agreed to repair, alter and clean a tank trailer for Monsanto Chemical Company. A Fruehauf employee, while using an electric torch on the trailer in the Charles ton, West Virginia, shop of Fruehauf, suffered an…