HEBERT v. BLANKENSHIP

No. 1699.

187 So.2d 798 (1966)

Janel Trahan HEBERT, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Thomas A. BLANKENSHIP, Jr., and C. R. Atwell, Individually (et al.), Defendants-Third-Party Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. BRITISH-AMERICAN OIL PRODUCING COMPANY, Third-Party Defendant-Appellee.

Court of Appeal of Louisiana, Third Circuit.

Rehearing Denied June 29, 1966.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

J. Minos Simon, Phil Trice, John Rixie Mouton and Simon, Trice & Mouton, Lafayette, for original plaintiff, defendant in intervention, Janel Trahan Hebert.

Henry B. Alsobrook, Jr., and Adams & Reese, New Orleans, and Alfred S. Landry and Landry, Watkins, Cousin & Bonin, New Iberia, for original defendants, third-party plaintiffs-appellants. Thomas A. Blankenship, Jr., and C. R. Atwell, and defendant, Argonaut Insurance Companies.

J. J. Davidson, Jr., and Davidson, Meaux, Onebane & Donohoe, Lafayette, for original defendant, defendant in intervention, third-party defendant-appellee, British-American Oil Producing Co. and defendant, Royce G. Nelson.

Patrick T. Caffery and Helm, Simon, Caffery & Duhe, New Iberia, for original defendant, defendant in intervention and third-party defendant, Cardwell Manufacturing Co., Inc.

J. Winston Fontenot and Voorhies, Labbe, Fontenot and Leonard & McGlassen, Lafayette, for original defendant, defendant in intervention, third-party defendant, Tri-State Tool Industries, Inc.

Victor E. Kellner and Pugh & Boudreaux, Lafayette, for intervenor, The Travelers Insurance Company.

Before TATE, SAVOY and HOOD, JJ.


TATE, Judge.

The principal demand of this damage suit is a widow's claim in tort for the death of her husband. He was killed when a drilling rig toppled over on which he was working. The widow sues various parties whose negligence in the manufacture, installation, location, or operation of the rig and derrick allegedly contributed to the accident causing her husband's death.

The present appeal relates only to the dismissal of a third-party demand filed by...

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