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GREAT AM. INS. CO. v. BYRD & WATKINS CONST., INC.

No. 78-1383.

630 F.2d 460 (1980)

GREAT AMERICAN INSURANCE COMPANY, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. BYRD & WATKINS CONSTRUCTION, INC., et al., Defendants, George F. Bennett, Defendant-Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Sixth Circuit.

Decided September 25, 1980.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Waldrop, Hall, Tomlin & Farmer, J. Daniel Breen, Jackson, Tenn., for plaintiff-appellant.

Edwin E. Wallis, Jr., Moss, Benton & Wallis, Jackson, Tenn., for defendant-appellee.

Before ENGEL, MERRITT and JONES, Circuit Judges.

MERRITT, Circuit Judge.

The appeal in this Tennessee diversity case concerns the effect of Tennessee Code § 48-1014 on the assumption of the "liabilities ... unknown" of a dissolved corporation.1 The District Court ruled that § 48-1014 barred any action against defendant George F. Bennett based on such an undertaking, and granted summary judgment to him. Because § 48-1014 does not...

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