Pittsburgh Steel Co. v. Patterson-Emerson-Comstock, Inc.

Opinion by

Mr. Justice Bell,

This appeal was taken from the judgment non obstante veredicto in favor of the defendant and additional defendant in an action of assumpsit. Plaintiff, Pittsburgh Steel Company, the present appellant, owned the property on which the construction was taking place. Plaintiff seeks indemnity for a sum it had been required to pay in settling an earlier action brought by an employee of the additional defendant (Eichleay Corporation) against plaintiff-appellant.

Originally the plaintiff entered into a contract with defendant-Patterson for the installation by defendant of a…