McDonald v. E. J. Lavino Co.

U.S. Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit · Decided 1970-07-31

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GOLDBERG, Circuit Judge. This appeal is the result of a drama played out in an Alabama courtroom against the backdrop of a Mississippi statute. The dramatis personae included an injured employee, his employer’s workmen’s compensation carrier, a third-party tortfeasor, and lawyers who were never able to reach agreement on how to settle the compensation carrier’s subrogation interest. The issue now before us arose when the t…

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