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FONTENOT v. STANOLIND OIL AND GAS COMPANY

Civ. A. Nos. 5352, 5353.

144 F.Supp. 818 (1956)

Louis FONTENOT v. STANOLIND OIL AND GAS COMPANY, Liberty Mutual Insurance Company, Intervenor. Viola ANDRUS, Widow of Eugene Laviolette, Individually, and on Behalf of Minor Child, Richard Allen Laviolette, v. STANOLIND OIL AND GAS COMPANY, Liberty Mutual Insurance Company, Intervenor.

United States District Court W. D. Louisiana, Opelousas Division.

September 21, 1956.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Paul C. Tate, Mamou, La., Emile A. Carmouche, Jr., Crowley, La., for plaintiffs.

Lemle & Kelleher, Adams & Reese, New Orleans, La., for defendant.

Davidson, Meaux, Onebane & Nenrbass, Lafayette, La., for intervenor.

HUNTER, District Judge.

These consolidated cases arise out of a fire which occurred on January 25, 1955, on a lease of Stanolind Oil and Gas Company in the "Pine Prairie Field" in Evangeline Parish, Louisiana. They present two more of the ever increasing tort suits brought by covered and fully compensated employees of a contractor against the principal.

The two complaints and the respective causes of action are almost identical except one involves a death...

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