WILKINS v. P.M.B. SYSTEMS ENGINEERING, INC.

No. 83-2017.

741 F.2d 795 (1984)

Allen Lane WILKINS, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. P.M.B. SYSTEMS ENGINEERING, INC., Defendant-Third Party Plaintiff-Appellant, v. BOB HENDERSHOT CONSULTANTS, INC., Defendant-Appellee, Otis Engineering Corporation and Aquatic Equipment & Engineering, Inc., Third Party Defendants-Appellants Appellees, Richard L. Eustace, Third Party Defendant-Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

September 17, 1984.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Benckenstein, McNicholas, Oxford, Radford & Johnson, Mary Ellen Blade, Hubert Oxford, III, Beaumont, Tex., for Otis Engineering.

Bracewell & Patterson, B. Thomas Cook, Houston, Tex., for P.M.B.

Weitinger, Steelhammer & Tucker, Don Weitinger, L. Keith Slade, Houston, Tex., for Aquatic Equipment.

Fairchild, Price & Russell, Grover Russell, Jr., Center, Tex., for Allen Lane Wilkins.

Dale Dowell, Beaumont, Tex., for Bob Hendershot Consultants, Inc.

John D. Rienstra, Jr., Beaumont, Tex., for Richard L. Eustace.

Before BROWN, REAVLEY and WILLIAMS, Circuit Judges.


JOHN R. BROWN, Circuit Judge:

This is an appeal of a seaman's personal injury suit against various defendants. Two of the defendants settled with the plaintiff in return for a Mary Carter agreement providing for their reimbursement from any recovery the plaintiff might later have from the non-settling defendants. We find the trial court's holding 553 F.Supp. 201, after trial that one of the non-settling defendants had been liable...

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