Parks v. Union Carbide Corp.

This appeal presents a question of contractual, as opposed to non-contractual, indemnity.

Plaintiffs sued Union Carbide Corporation for damages for injuries sustained by Melvin Parks while performing work for his employer, Chemlime Corporation, a transporter of lime, on Carbide’s premises. Parks charged that while he was on his truck parked adjacent to Carbide’s storage tanks and sewer lines, Carbide negligently injected water into a sewer line so that water pressure entered a storage tank and caused hot water and lime to erupt from the storage tank and drop on him. Carbide denied negligence…