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· 6/5/1989

Higgins Erectors & Haulers, Inc. v. E.E. Austin & Son, Inc.

Citations

  • 714 F. Supp. 756
  • 1989 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 6770
  • 1989 WL 63976

How courts have described this case

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  • dismissing fifth-party complaint where although “couched in negligence terms, it is actually based upon an alleged breach [of contract]”
  • no right to indemnification where litigant’s “liability arises solely out of its contract with [another party] and in no way is it secondary to the wholly unrelated alleged liability of [a third party] which is based upon an entirely separate contract.”

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Judges: Gerald J. Weber

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