Mississippi Power Company v. Joseph Roubicek and Mallory Pierce, D/B/A Associated Engineers

JOHN R. BROWN, Chief Judge:

The question presented in this Erie 1 controlled diversity case is whether under applicable Mississippi law, a party can be successfully indemnified against loss occasioned by his own negligence under a contract of indemnity which contains no express language to that effect. The District Court, interpreting and applying Mississippi State law within the jEVie-imposed confines of its Í7ne-created role as merely another Mississippi State Court, 2 holding that since the indemnity provision here in issue did not contain such express language — no specific mention of…