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BROWN & ROOT MARINE OPERATORS, INC. v. ZAPATA OFF-SHORE CO.

No. 23747.

377 F.2d 724 (1967)

BROWN & ROOT MARINE OPERATORS, INC. and Brown & Root, Inc., Successor to Brown & Root Marine Operators, Inc., Appellants, v. ZAPATA OFF-SHORE COMPANY, Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals Fifth Circuit.

April 24, 1967.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert Eikel, Eikel & Goller, Houston, Tex., for appellants.

James K. Nance, R. Gordon Gooch, Houston, Tex., for appellee Zapata Off-Shore Co., Baker, Botts, Shepherd & Coates, Houston, Tex., of counsel.

Before GEWIN, COLEMAN and GOLDBERG, Circuit Judges.

COLEMAN, Circuit Judge:

Brown & Root Marine Operators, Inc.,1 as owner of the barge MM-71, filed a libel and petition for exoneration or limitation of liability, civil and maritime, for damage to the offshore gas well equipment of Zapata. The case was tried to the Court below without a jury. The Court filed findings of fact and conclusions of law in an interlocutory decree. It held Brown & Root liable and (as we read the decree...

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