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FALLS INDUSTRIES, INC., v. CONSOLIDATED CHEM. INDUS., INC.

No. 16887.

258 F.2d 277 (1958)

FALLS INDUSTRIES, INC., Appellant, v. CONSOLIDATED CHEMICAL INDUSTRIES, INC., and D. C. Hall Transport, Inc., Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals Fifth Circuit.

August 6, 1958.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Victor A. Sachse, Breazeale, Sachse, Wilson & Hebert, Baton Rouge, La., for appellant.

C. W. Phillips, Taylor, Porter, Brooks, Fuller & Phillips, Baton Rouge, La., Robert A. Ainsworth, Jr., New Orleans, La., Calvin E. Hardin, Jr., Baton Rouge, La., Ainsworth & Ainsworth, New Orleans, La., Durrett, Hardin, Hunter, Dameron & Fritchie, Baton Rouge, La., of counsel, for appellees.

Before RIVES, BROWN, and WISDOM, Circuit Judges.

WISDOM, Circuit Judge.

This is a three-cornered dispute involving a seller, a buyer, a carrier — and goods damaged in transit. Besides the basic question of liability, the appeal presents a serious procedural question: Is a third-party defendant properly before this Court on appeal, when the original plaintiff did not assert a claim against the third-party defendant by amending its complaint or by filing a new pleading and the third-party plaintiff has not...

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