Legal Opinion

Taracorp, Inc. v. Nl Industries, Inc.

Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit

Decided February 13, 1996No. 95-1876PublishedCited by 59 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

FLAUM, Circuit Judge.

Taracorp, Inc. (“Taracorp”) sued NL Industries, Inc. (“NL”) for indemnification of certain environmental clean-up liabilities under their March 4, 1985 Agreement. Exercising its diversity jurisdiction, the district court granted summary judgment for NL. The district court found that the language of the Agreement unambiguously excluded the type of claim Taracorp was making and noted that the extrinsic evidence offered confirmed this conclusion. We reverse.

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Taracorp, a Georgia corporation with its principal place of business in Atlanta, Georgia, owns and operates scrap…

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