SCARBOROUGH v. RIDGEWAY

No. 82-2156.

726 F.2d 132 (1984)

Susan F. SCARBOROUGH, in her individual capacity, and as next friend and for the use of Barry L. Scarborough, Jr., a minor, Stephen Scarborough, a minor, and Victoria Scarborough, a minor, and as the administratrix of the estate of the late Barry L. Scarborough, Appellees, v. Glenn W. RIDGEWAY, Former Electrical Supervisor, University of Maryland, Appellant, v. M.C. DEAN ELECTRICAL CONTRACTING, INC. and Howard L. Rivenbark, Appellees. Susan F. Scarborough, et al., Amicus Curiae.

United States Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit.

Decided January 17, 1984.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Paul F. Strain, Deputy Atty. Gen., Baltimore, Md. (Jeanne D. Hitchcock, Asst. Atty. Gen., Baltimore, Md., on brief), for appellant.

Stephen J. Hadley, Washington, D.C. (John D. Aldock, Jeffrey C. Martin, Shea & Gardner, Washington, D.C., on brief), as amicus curiae.

William O. Lockwood, Rockville, Md. (Darah P. Kehnemuyi, Washington, D.C., on brief), for appellees.

Before WINTER, Chief Judge, and PHILLIPS and ERVIN, Circuit Judges.


HARRISON L. WINTER, Chief Judge:

This appeal presents an issue of contractual indemnification. The district court ruled that the indemnification language of a construction contract between an electrical contractor and the State of Maryland did not require the contractor (and its insurer) to pay a judgment, obtained by the estate and the surviving dependents of a deceased employee of the contractor, against a state employee whose negligence was a proximate cause of...

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