JOHN W. ESHELMAN & SONS, INC. v. SEA. COAST LINE R. CO.

No. 82-2763.

431 So.2d 345 (1983)

JOHN W. ESHELMAN & SONS, Inc., and Travelers Insurance Company, Appellants, v. SEABOARD COAST LINE RAILROAD COMPANY, and James W. Hicks and Catherine Hicks, His Wife, Appellees.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Second District.

May 18, 1983.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Charles P. Schropp and William A. Gillen, Jr. of Shackleford, Farrior, Stallings & Evans, Tampa, for appellants.

O. Robert Wallace, III, of Greene, Mann, Rowe, Stanton, Mastry & Burton, Tampa, for appellee Seaboard Coast Line R. Co.


GRIMES, Acting Chief Judge.

This appeal involves the interpretation of an indemnity agreement.

James Hicks, an Eshelman employee, sued Seaboard for injuries which he received while unloading bags of animal feed from a boxcar located on a sidetrack used to service Eshelman's plant. He alleged that the accident occurred through the negligence of Seaboard when the boxcar on which he was standing was struck by another boxcar. Seaboard filed a third-party complaint...

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