Legal Opinion
Exxon Corporation v. Maryland Casualty Company
Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
Decided July 26, 1979No. 79-1357PublishedCited by 93 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
ALVIN B. RUBIN, Circuit Judge:
Maryland Casualty Company has filed a motion to dismiss this appeal of Exxon Corporation as premature. In order to explain the unusual context in which we find this motion and our action in granting it, we briefly review the events below.
As a result of the failure of one of its customers, Lambert, 1 to pay its bills, Exxon filed a diversity suit against the customer’s surety, Maryland Casualty, alleging that Maryland Casualty was responsible for the unpaid bills. The suit was based on two separate but overlapping claims. The first claim 2 was based on the…
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