WESTERN CONSTRUCTORS, INC. v. SOUTHERN PACIFIC CO.

No. 20939.

381 F.2d 573 (1967)

WESTERN CONSTRUCTORS, INC., a corporation, Appellant, v. SOUTHERN PACIFIC COMPANY, a corporation, Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals Ninth Circuit.

Rehearing Denied September 1, 1967.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Jennings, Strouss, Salmon & Trask, Mark Wilmer, Snell & Wilmer, Phoenix, Ariz., for appellant.

Joseph Jenckes, Evans, Kitchel & Jenckes, Phoenix, Ariz., for appellee.

Before POPE, MERRILL and ELY, Circuit Judges.


ELY, Circuit Judge:

Appellee, hereinafter called "the railroad," filed suit in the United States District Court for the District of Arizona, seeking damages resulting from a collision between its freight train and a "carryall," an earth-moving machine, operated by appellant's employee. The appellant, which will be referred to as "the contractor," counterclaimed for damages sustained by it in the same accident. Jurisdiction of the court below rested upon diversity...

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