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DREWERY v. DASPIT BROS. MARINE DIVERS, INC.

No. 19633.

317 F.2d 425 (1963)

Melvin E. DREWERY, Jr., Appellant, v. DASPIT BROS. MARINE DIVERS, INC., Appellee and Cross-Appellant. Melvin E. DREWERY, Jr., Appellant, v. SHELL OIL COMPANY, a Corporation, Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals Fifth Circuit.

Rehearing Denied June 15, 1963.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Richard Joseph McGinty, Jr., Baldwin, Haspel, Molony, Rainold & Meyer, Robert R. Rainold, New Orleans, La., for appellant.

Robert B. Acomb, Jr., Edmond Salassi, of Jones, Walker, Waechter, Poitevent, Carrere & Denegre, New Orleans, La., for Shell Oil Co.

George B. Matthews, Lemle & Kelleher, New Orleans, La., William P. Schuler, Tapper, Schuler & Perez, Arabi, La., for Daspit Bros. Marine Divers, Inc.

Before RIVES, CAMERON and BELL, Circuit Judges.

GRIFFIN B. BELL, Circuit Judge.

The sole issue left in these cases after dismissal by the appellant is the validity of the judgment in favor of Shell Oil Company, third-party plaintiff, against Daspit, as third-party defendant, in the amount of the recovery of appellant from Shell Oil Company.

Appellant, a professional diver in the employ of Daspit, was injured during diving operations while attempting to locate a severed underwater oil line in the Gulf of...

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