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GEOTECHNICAL CORP. OF DELAWARE v. PURE OIL CO.

No. 13621.

196 F.2d 199 (1952)

GEOTECHNICAL CORP. OF DELAWARE v. PURE OIL CO. PIZZO v. GEOTECHNICAL CORP. OF DELAWARE.

United States Court of Appeals Fifth Circuit.

Rehearings Denied June 3, 1952.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Charles Kohlmeyer, Jr., John May, New Orleans, La., for appellant.

Harry F. Stiles, Jr., Edwin H. Grace, New Orleans, La., for appellee.

Before SIBLEY, RUSSELL and RIVES, Circuit Judges.

SIBLEY, Circuit Judge.

The Pure Oil Company, which for brevity will be called Pure, brought a libel in personam against Geotechnical Corporation of Delaware, referred to as "Geotech", to recover for the loss of Pure's motor vessel Leo Huff while in use by Geotech in seismographic blasting operations in search of oil deposits off the coast of Louisiana in the Gulf of Mexico. Negligence on the part of employees of Geotech in exploding a charge of dynamite which...

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