TROSCLAIR v. BECHTEL CORP.

No. 80-3790 Summary Calendar.

653 F.2d 162 (1981)

Kenneth C. TROSCLAIR and Randall K. Gilbert, Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. BECHTEL CORPORATION, et al., Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit. Unit A

August 7, 1981.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

M. James Chaney, Jr., Landman Teller, Jr., Vicksburg, Miss., for plaintiffs-appellants.

Watkins & Eager, P. N. Harkins, III, Velia Ann Mayer, Jackson, Miss., for defendants-appellees.

Before GEE, RUBIN and RANDALL, Circuit Judges.


PER CURIAM:

Although Mississippi courts have not ruled definitively, this circuit, following the predictive course required of it in diversity cases, has held that its courts would impose those duties on contractors expressed in the Restatement (Second) of Torts § 324A, and commonly called the Good Samaritan Doctrine. Tillman v. Travelers Indemnity Co., 506 F.2d 917 (5th Cir. 1975); Stacy v. Aetna Casualty & Surety...

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