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SOUTHERN NATURAL GAS COMPANY v. WILSON

No. 19158.

304 F.2d 253 (1962)

SOUTHERN NATURAL GAS COMPANY, Appellant, v. Clyde WILSON and Index Drilling Company, Inc., Appellees. SOUTHERN NATURAL GAS COMPANY, Appellant, v. Cammie L. WILSON and Index Drilling Company, Inc., Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals Fifth Circuit.

May 17, 1962.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Erskine W. Wells, Earl T. Thomas, W. C. Wells, III, Jack W. Brand, Jackson, Miss., Wells, Thomas & Wells, Lipscomb & Barksdale, Jackson, Miss., of counsel, for appellant.

W. B. Fontaine, Elizabeth Grayson, Shelby R. Rogers, Swep S. Taylor, Jr., Jackson, Miss., James D. Hester, Laurel, Miss., Watkins & Eager, Jackson, Miss., of counsel, for plaintiffs-appellees.

Carroll Gartin, Charles W. Pickering, Laurel, Miss., Gartin & Hester, Laurel, Miss., of counsel, for third party defendant-appellee.

Before TUTTLE, Chief Judge, and RIVES and WISDOM, Circuit Judges.

RIVES, Circuit Judge.

This appeal presents another difficult question as to the liability vel non of a contractee to employees of an independent contractor, and also a question of the contractee's right of indemnity from the independent contractor.

Southern Natural Gas Company (hereafter Southern) appeals from judgments entered against it upon a jury verdict in favor of Clyde Wilson (hereafter Clyde) in the amount...

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