LAYNE-MINNESOTA P. R., INC. v. SINGER CO.

Nos. 77-1731, 77-1786.

574 F.2d 429 (1978)

LAYNE-MINNESOTA p. r., INC., Appellee, v. The SINGER COMPANY and Layne-Atlantic Company, Appellants, v. LAYNE-MINNESOTA COMPANY and United Pacific Insurance Company, Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Eighth Circuit.

Decided April 19, 1978.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Elmer B. Trousdale, St. Paul, Minn., for appellant, David C. Donnelly, St. Paul, Minn., on briefs; Oppenheimer, Wolff, Foster, Shepard & Donnelly, St. Paul, Minn., filed appendix.

B. Warren Hart, St. Paul, Minn., for appellee; A. Patrick Leighton, St. Paul, Minn., on brief.

Before HEANEY and STEPHENSON, Circuit Judges, and BECKER, Senior District Judge.


HEANEY, Circuit Judge.

In 1971, Layne-Atlantic Company, a wholly owned subsidiary of The Singer Company, entered into a construction contract with Layne-Minnesota Company.1 Layne-Minnesota agreed to drill caisson holes for two bridge sites, Overlook and LaPalmas, in connection with a Puerto Rican highway construction project. Layne-Atlantic had previously contracted with Ballenger-Potashnick, the general contractor for the project, to...

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