David Gobern v. Metals & Controls, Inc., Defendant-Third Party v. Walco Electric Co., Third-Party

McENTEE, Circuit Judge.

Plaintiff Gobern, an employee of Walco Electric Co., was seriously injured when he fell from a staging while doing electrical work at the Metals & Controls, Inc., plant in Attleboro, Massachusetts. He brought this diversity ' suit against Metals alleging, inter alia, that it had negligently provided him with a dangerous and defective staging and that this was the cause of his accident. Metals impleaded Walco as a third party defendant under a contract of indemnity. 1 The jury found in favor of the plaintiff 2 in the principal action and found for Metals in its action…