Waters v. Western Co. of North America

LEWIS, Chief Judge.

This case reaches us by way of appeal authorized under 28 U.S.C. § 1292(b) after certification by the trial court that an interlocutory order of that court involved a controlling question of law proper for immediate appellate consideration. The subject order was one allowing the filing of a counterclaim by a third party defendant against the plaintiff in litigation involving an automobile accident. In his petition to this court for permission to appeal an interlocutory order, plaintiff-appellant, through counsel whom' this court assumed were his sole counsel of record,…