Court Opinion

ID: 9443176
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-03 19:13:14.642157+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T17:29:23.962536
License: Public Domain

LINDLEY, Circuit Judge
(dissenting).
The District Court found that in order for Drews to avail„ himself of the use of the hopper it was necessary for him to place himself and his truck in a hazardous position; that at the time of the accident, the hopper was running and Drews was in the process of dumping coal into the hopper and had been doing so for some 20 or 25 minutes and that the injury to Drews arose, at least in part, in connection with the use of the hopper.
This finding was based upon substantial evidence and was not “clearly erroneous.” The contract wherein the railroad company licensed defendant to build the hopper on railroad property, provided, as consideration therefor, that defendant would indemnify and save harmless the licensor from all “loss or damage to property and injury to or death of persons, including costs and expenses incident thereto, arising, wholly or in part, from or in connection with the existence, construction, operation, use or removal of said facility or any defect therein or failure thereof, causing same or contributing thereto.” (Emphasis supplied.) It follows I think, that the District Court’s conclusion that “it was exactly this kind of occurrence that the indemnity agreement was designed to meet,” was sound as a matter of law.
I would affirm the judgment.