Legal Opinion

Parks v. Union Carbide Corp.

Supreme Court of Missouri

Decided June 10, 1980No. 61468Published

1Opinion of the Court

602 S.W.2d 188 (1980)

Melvin PARKS and Louise Parks, Plaintiffs,

v.

UNION CARBIDE CORPORATION, Defendant-Third-Party-Plaintiff-Appellant,

v.

CHEMLIME CORPORATION, Third-Party-Defendant-Respondent.

No. 61468.

Supreme Court of Missouri, En Banc.

June 10, 1980.

Rehearing Denied July 15, 1980.

Kemper R. Coffelt, Roberts, Heneghan & Coffelt, Inc., St. Louis, for Union Carbide Corp.

Eugene K. Buckley, Gerre S. Langton, Evans & Dixon, St. Louis, for Chemlime Corp.

2Per curiam

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

Plaintiffs sued Union Carbide Corporation for damages for…

Also in this document: Concurring in part, dissenting in part; Dissent · Welliver; Dissent · Donnelly.

3Cases cited77 opinions

  1. Ryan Stevedoring Co. v. Pan-Atlantic Steamship Corp.Supreme Court of the United States · 1956
  2. Dole v. Dow Chemical Co.New York Court of Appeals · 1972
  3. American Motorcycle Assn. v. Superior CourtCalifornia Supreme Court · 1978
  4. Skinner v. Reed-Prentice Division Package MacHinery Co.Illinois Supreme Court · 1978
  5. Bradley v. Appalachian Power Co.West Virginia Supreme Court · 1979

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