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RODRIGUE v. AETNA CASUALTY AND SURETY COMPANY

No. 24504.

395 F.2d 216 (1968)

Paulette Boudreaux RODRIGUE, etc., Appellant, v. AETNA CASUALTY AND SURETY COMPANY et al., Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals Fifth Circuit.

May 16, 1968.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Thomas W. Thorne, Jr., New Orleans, La., Philip E. Henderson, Charles J. Hanemann, Jr., Houma, La., A. Deutsche O'Neal, Philip E. Henderson, Charles J. Hanemann, Jr., of O'Neal, Waitz & Henderson, Houma, La., for plaintiff-appellant.

W. J. McAnelly, Jr., New Orleans, La., Richard C. Baldwin, James E. Blazek of Adams & Reese, New Orleans, La., for defendants-appellees.

Before BELL, AINSWORTH and GODBOLD, Circuit Judges.

PER CURIAM:

Appellant's husband was killed in an accident on the derrick of a drilling rig on a fixed structure located on the Outer Continental Shelf approximately 28 miles south of Grand Isle, Louisiana. The District Judge dismissed appellant's civil suits based upon Louisiana's Death Statute (La.R.C.C. Art. 2315) but retained jurisdiction over her suit in Admiralty under the Death on the High Seas Act (46 U.S.C. § 761 et seq ) and awarded a substantial judgment...

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