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TRANSCONTINENTAL GAS PIPE L. CORP. v. MOBILE DRILL BARGE

No. 27827.

424 F.2d 684 (1970)

TRANSCONTINENTAL GAS PIPE LINE CORPORATION, Petitioner-Appellee, v. The MOBILE DRILLING BARGE or Vessel Known As MR. CHARLIE etc., Defendant. SIGNAL OIL & GAS COMPANY et al., Third-Party Defendant-Appellants, v. OCEAN DRILLING & EXPLORATION COMPANY, Third-Party Claimant-Appellee, Forest Oil Corporation et al., Third-Party Defendants-Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

Rehearing Denied May 13, 1970.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

William R. Eckhardt, Houston, Tex., Paul V. Cassisa, New Orleans, La. for Signal Oil; Bernard, Micholet & Cassisa, New Orleans, La., Vinson, Elkins, Searls & Connally, Houston, Tex., of counsel.

Fletcher Etheridge, Houston, Tex., Robert E. Leake, Jr., New Orleans, La., for Forest Oil Corp., and another; Butler, Binion, Rice, Cook & Knapp, Houston, Tex., of counsel.

Frank M. Bean, Houston, Tex., Bruce J. Borello, New Orleans, La., for Tex. Gas Expl. Co.

Thomas H. Leach, New Orleans, La., Sweeney J. Doehring, Houston, Tex., for Transcontinental Gas Pipe Corp.; Leach, Grossel-Rossi & Paysse, New Orleans, La., Fulbright, Crooker, Freeman, Bates & Jaworski, Houston, Tex., of counsel.

George B. Matthews, New Orleans, La., Charles E. Dunbar, III, New Orleans, La., Lemle, Kelleher, Kohlmeyer, Matthews & Schumacher, Phelps, Dunbar, Marks, Claverie & Sims, New Orleans, La., for Ocean Drilling and Exploration Co.

Before WISDOM and DYER, Circuit Judges, and CASSIBRY, District Judge.

DYER, Circuit Judge:

This suit arose out of drilling operations being conducted in the Gulf of Mexico when the Drilling Barge "MR. CHARLIE", owned and operated by Ocean Drilling and Exploration Company (ODECO), submerged and came in contact with a Transcontinental Gas Pipe Line Corporation (TRANSCO) 20-inch gas pipe line buried in Block 106 in the Eugene Island Area of the Gulf. TRANSCO brought this suit for injury to its pipe line against the barge "MR. CHARLIE"...

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