United States Fifth Circuit

Manufacturer's certification of contractor as qualified to install its product does not make the contractor an agent of the manufacturer, under Mississippi law.

Appellate Information

• Decided 01/07/2002
• Published 01/07/2002

Judges

• EMILIO M. GARZA, Circuit Judge:, Before EMILIO M. GARZA and PARKER, Circuit Judges, and HINOJOSA , District Judge.

Court

• United States Fifth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Christopher Dale Shearer,Charles G. Copeland (argued), Donald James Blackwood, Copeland, Cook, Taylor & Bush, Ridgeland, MS, for Cooper Industries Inc. and Moisture Protection Associates, Inc., Clifford Caswell Whitney, III (argued), Varner, Parker & Sessums, Vicksburg, MS, for Tarmac Roofing Systems, Inc., Ronald Alton Yarbrough (argued), Mary Lynn Patton, Ott & Purdy, Ridgeland, MS, for International Fidelity Ins. Co., Martha Langley Perkins, American Ins. Ass'n, Washington, DC, for American Ins. Ass'n and Surety Ass'n of America, Amicus Curiae.